Open GeoScience Hackathon
May 28-30th 2025, Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA.
The geosciences are entering an exciting phase, with open-source research ecosystems opening new avenues of investigation. With this great power comes great responsibility: sharing research data, software, and workflow is fundamental to building a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) open science ecosystem. FROGS is a new initiative from LinkedEarth that links together science practice and publishing in a series of synchronous and asynchronous trainings.
Our last training opportunity (Open GeoScience Hackathon) kicks off May28-30th 2025 in Marina Del Rey and will focus on packaging research software for the geosciences.
- Intended audience: Researchers interested in sharing their open science code in the form of an open source package, or in contributing to open source libraries.
- Learning objectives: opening pull requests to contribute to open source projects; packaging software for distribution, including documentation; principles of unit tests and continuous integration (CI); publishing through a package manager.
- Description: The workshop will consist of a blend of lectures and the participant’s own research needs.
- Completion: Participants will be asked to submit a research software package to a repository such as CRAN or PyPI and/or contribute to an open source package through a pull request.
Format
This training will be both synchronous and asynchronous over the next 8-10 weeks. The synchronous event will consist of a mixture of lectures and dedicated time for research. The asynchronous portion will take place over the following 8-10 weeks for completion of the project. The asynchronous portion will be supported through virtual office hours. Final links to software repositories should be submitted 2 weeks after the end of the asynchronous period. Both the synchronous and asynchronous events will be supported by an online platform, LeapFROGS to learn or review relevant material.
Participating
- Register here by March 31st, 2025.
- See our FAQ for questions. We highly recommend you read through this section.
- Feel free to email us with any additional questions.
Schedule
The schedule is available here.
Support
This workshop is supported by NSF grant RISE 2324732 from the Geoscience Open Science Ecosystem program. Travel grants are available for US-based participants.