Community

Updates

The CyberPaleo blog disseminates updates from the LinkedEarth team and affiliates, as well as guest posts from various partners.

Discussion

  • Discourse: Announcements and general discussion is done through this forum. This is also a great place to ask for help with our tools (e.g. Pyleoclim, GeoChronR, LiPD). This is the best place to start getting involved with LinkedEarth.

  • Slack: Our Slack workspace is mainly used for hackathons. Email us for an invitation.

  • GitHub: All technical discussion should go through GitHub. Please do so in the “issues” section of project-specific GitHub repositories (e.g. Pyleoclim repository). All of our packages follow the Open Development model. See each repository for guidelines.

Training

We offer synchronouns and asynchronous training opportunities through the following modalities:

  • Hackathons:

    • paleoHack, dedicated to Python tools, particularly Pyleoclim:

      • Previous hackathon materials (2021, 2022, 2023) are available through our paleoHackathon GitHub repository. The notebooks are released through myBinder and hosted on its own JupyterHub. Email us for a Hub account.

      • Future hackathons are TBD. Keep an eye on our Twitter and Discourse for updates.

    • FROGS: Facilitating Reproducible and Open Geoscience Research. FROGS aims to teach the next generation of earth scientists how to openly share all artifacts of their research (data, software, and workflows) to ensure that their work is reproducible. We offer in-person and virtual hackathons (2024-2025). The LeapFROG platform supports asynchrouns learning of timeseries analysis in Python and in R along with best practices for publishng data, software and workflows.

    • GeoChronR workshops (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022)

Compilation Working Groups

The LiPDverse has information on a number of paleo compilation projects have that adopted LinkedEarth tools. A graph database that can support complex queries is also available to the community and can be accessed via PyLiPD.