You are invited to provide feedback on the Pangeo showcase!

Meta Pangeo Showcase
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We still have one exciting showcase talk left for the fall series, but it’s already time to start planning for the spring. I want to hear from you about what we can do better!

Specific topics I’d like to hear about:

  • Would you be excited, indifferent, or terribly disappointed if the America’s Time-Zone Pangeo showcases happened bi-weekly at 12 PM ET, with regular community meetings on the other weeks? This proposal is based off a discussion at the community meeting a couple weeks ago and the scheduling survey from the beginning of the fall series.
    • Would the Europe/Africa time-zone community meeting be interested in hosting Pangeo showcases on the alternating weeks? cc @annefou @tinaok
  • What topics are you most interested in - new software libraries, new developments in libraries like Xarray, Zarr, and Dask, infrastructure approaches, scientific use cases, or a mix of some/all of those?
  • Should any parts of the Pangeo showcase hosting process be added, cut, or automated?
  • Anything else you want to share!

I encourage people, especially those who don’t regularly post on the discourse, to share their thoughts as a comment in this thread. It truly doesn’t matter how strongly you hold the belief or whether your comment is well-written - I want to hear it!

However, if you’re still not convinced, you can instead share feedback via this form.

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I like the bi-weekly idea!
I’d like to see a talk on stac-rs perhaps by Pete Gadomski?

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It would be great to have a session in an EU-friendly time zone. Perhaps if the US showcases move to bi-weekly, the EUcommunity could host a showcase once a month or every two months during the alternating weeks when the US side isn’t hosting.
Look for feedback from EU side @pl.marasco @geynard @annefou

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We just had our weekly European informal coffee meeting, and on the European side, we can propose moving our informal coffee meeting to Tuesday at 16:00 (CET). and, we could host a showcase once a month or every two months.

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Living in the UK I’m definitely a fan of the time changes :smiley:
And getting the European community involved in the showcases too

I probably like the xarray/zarr/dask updates the most, but it’s rare that I haven’t found a showcase interesting in some way!

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Thanks for the thoughts everyone! Starting in February 2025 (we already have a showcase scheduled for January 29), we’ll leave the final Wednesday of every month as a community meeting (no showcase) for the Americas TZ. It sounds like the European community call may involve a presentation during those weeks. Thanks also for the ideas about topics of interest

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