Request for Connections

Hello everyone,

My name is Justin Reid and I’m a software engineer and federal contractor working on NOAA NESDIS’s NESDIS Common Cloud Framework and I’m reaching out to ask about connections in the Pangeo community. I have introduced the use of XArray on my team for our data post processing development work and have advocated the use of other Pangeo libraries such as Kerchunk and I want to maintain that advocacy. I am also looking for connections within the Pangeo community as I feel that Pangeo represents the future of earth science data. So any help anyone could provide with making connections or who want to connect themselves I would greatly appreciate it.

Have a nice afternoon,

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Hi Justin,

A great place to make connections or learn from others is the Cloud Native Geospatial slack. You can join here Slack

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Jason,

Great! I’ll be sure to join!

Hi @jlreid28! The CNG slack that Jason mentioned is great.

Here are some entry points to Pangeo that you might be interested in:

  • Join the weekly Pangeo community meetings. I haven’t been able to attend recently due to conflicts during the summer, but there are a few folks that attend weekly. The meeting’s attendance will also pick up again in the fall.
  • Join a working group (listed nearer to the bottom of the meetings page. Out of those, I think the distributed array working group and the virtualizarr coordination meeting are the more active currently. I’d be glad to chat about the virtualizarr meetings and what to expect from the calls ahead of time if you’re interested in that topic.
  • Present a showcase. I’m going to start organizing the fall showcase series next month. If you’re interested in presenting on the Common Cloud Framework or another topic of interest I think folks could learn a ton and appreciate your contributions.
  • Join a Pythia hackathon - Pythia is the education oriented Pangeo initiative. While the deadline was a few days ago, maybe they’d accomodate a late application if you’re interested :crossed_fingers: I expect everyone attending the hackathon will share your enthusiams for these tools
  • Attend a social event at a conference. Pangeo often has social hours, birds of a feather sessions, or workshops at major conferences, which can be a great chance to meet people. If you are attending a conference, you can also post an announcement to see who else is around to organize your own gathering of Pangeo enthusiasts.

I’d also be glad to chat more if you’re interested, feel welcome to send me a DM if you want to find a time to chat.

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Max,

Thanks for the info! I wanted to get involved with some open source contributions so I would be interested in the distributed array and virtualizarr meetings. I won’t be able to make it to the Pythia hackathon this year but maybe there are options to attend online? I’ll DM you to ask everything I want to.

Thanks again!

You’re more than welcome to attend any of those meetings, but also note that attendance is not a requirement to contribute to open source! Most of these projects (xarray, zarr, virtualizarr etc.) have a “good first issue” label, and a contributor’s guide, designed to help you have a go at contributing asynchronously.