ESC 2012 08 20

Participants Chris Lynnes, Jeff McWhirter, Brian Wee, Steve Browdy, Siri Jodha, Phil Yang

Agenda and Notes

1. Recap of ESC at the ESIP meeting

• Hackathon, good exposure to Ramadda
• Next time make it more structured and give a set of collaboration tasks
• Need focused tasks
• Two 1 1/2 hour sessions, first step by step, second have some tasks
• Need to know who's going to be an attendee beforehand
• Toolmatch produced most
• What can we do to prepare for Hackathons?
• Need two to three hours preparation
• We're going to try some remote Hackathons for HubZero and NASA Earth Exchange
• Integration of Ramadda with brokering solution

2. Moving forward

• ESC and Earthcube
• ESC voluntary, we tend to meander a little
• ESC has a general vision
• Instead of trying to build a system we should try to build an ecosystem, collaborating and competing components, can have more than on thing fill the niche
• How do you grow an ecosystem, selection pressures to grow the ecosystem you wan

3. Briefing by Phil Yang on the NSF-funded I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications, possible synergy with our ESC effort

• Carol and Erin went to center planning meeting they had last week
• NSF program: objective promote innovative prototype research
• Ways to help each other collaboratively
  • Natural hazards
  • To relieve scientists from IT part so they can focus on their research
  • will have about 20 projects each year to
  • spatiotemporal thinking methodologies
  • Research reports, agendas, and technology products
  • Organic approaches, are you trying to develop a research community around the technology?
  • Interaction between technology and community is the organic piece
  • Not everything has to be open source in a collaborative environment
  • T4: have you put any thought into what is that knowledge?
  • ESC: knowledge needs to be broken loose from paper publications
    • if I have an article I want to be able to link data
    • digital artifacts that are a product of the paper
    • knowledge linked with tools and data

4. Ideas before January meeting

• send in ideas for activities for investigation
  • Hubzero
  • NASA earth exchange
  • Clean up what we have on amazon site and export it to Ramada site (Jeff)
  • Computational modeling

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