DevLunch
From NCEAS Knowledge Base
Email List: http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/devlunch
NOTE: Schedule changed to Wednesdays
An informal brown-bag lunch for discussing current issues in ecological informatics and related technology. Each week one person volunteers to jumpstart the discussion with a brief 20 minute presentation about some project or feature they are working on or some other topic of interest, followed by 40 minutes of discussion. DevLunch aims to increase the contact between people working at MSI and NCEAS on closely related informatics projects, including the NCEAS Ecoinformatics research group, the PISCO development group, the SBC and MCR information managers, and the NCEAS computing staff, among others. We'll try to support remote connectivity to the lunch for folks like Matt and Chris using VNC and Gizmo, but DevLunch is mostly intended to get local people at MSB more in touch with what everyone is doing.
When: Wednesdays at 12:30, starting July 27, 2006
Where: Marine Science Building 4th floor conference room
Who: Ecoinformatics people at MSB/NCEAS
For example:
Dan, Josh, Jing, Chad, Matt J, Derik, Chris, Ben
Callie, Mark, Jim R, Rick, Shaun
Margaret, Jordan, Chris, Sabine, Chad Burt
Jim W, Mike F, Nick, Thomas
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Format
- 20 minute informal presentation, 40 minutes discussion
- slides/demo optional
- should not require a lot of prep time for the speaker -- keep it informal, and more discussion than presentation
Current 2008 schedule
Whether devlunch is held or not, location schedule is now static (for ease of NCEAS scheduling).
- Jan 9: Chris Barteau: API Design Issues (half hour presentation); Callie Bowdish: New Release of Metacat and Experiences with XSLT (half hour presentation)
- Jan 23:
- Feb 6: Shaun Walbridge: NCEAS Collaboration sites -- @ MSRB (i.e. "MSI")
- Feb 20: Kevin Drury: Kruger National Park TPCs and Kepler -- @ NCEAS ("downtown")
- Mar 5: Colin Ebert: The Technical Aspects of Mapping The World at 1km2 -- @ MSI (4th floor)
- Mar 19: Ben Leinfelder: FIRST project and the Datamanager library -- @ NCEAS ("downtown")
- Apr 2: Matt Jones and others: The road to SVN -- @ MSI (4th floor)
- Apr 16: none
- Apr 30: @MSI
- May 14: @NCEAS
- May 28: Jing Tao: Fixing Illegitimate EML Schemas in Metacat -- @ MSI (4th floor)
- Jun 11: Matt Jones: Grants Roundup -- @ NCEAS
- Jun 25: Chris Jones: PISCO Metacat Interface -- @ MSI
- Jul 09: Mike Daigle: Metacat 1.9 -- @ NCEAS
- Jul 23: @MSI
- Aug 06: @NCEAS
- Aug 20: @MSI
- Sep 03: @NCEAS
- Sep 17: @MSI
- Oct 01: @NCEAS
Past 2007 and 2006 schedules
Potential topics
This is a list of ideas that I (MBJ) came up with in a discussion with Chris. We think these are examples of interesting topics for overviews or discussions. Please feel free to add to the list, or modify items. I'll be approaching people for volunteers for the slots above, so think about what you might want to discuss a bit. The intent is that this should not take a lot of preparation on the presenter's part -- rather, they should be more or less giving an update on something they are working on and use any slides or demos needed to make it clear. But we want to stress that this should be an informal presentation and discussion.
Dan: Overview of Kepler
Dan: Using R, Matlab, and EcoGrid in Kepler
Dan: Directors and models of computation in Kepler
Dan: Building installers for software
Sid: The ESA data registry changes to Metacat
Callie: moderating the ESA registry
Sid: Metacat performance issues
Sid: Metacat client UIs -- developing new skins
Chris: A new CSS-based skins system for Metacat
MatthewP: Spatial extensions to metacat
Jing: EcoGrid, purpose and API overview
Jing: Pitfalls in consuming EML-described data for analysis
Chad: VegBank, purpose and overview
Chad: Vegbank shopping cart
Josh: Ontologies and EML, overview of OBOE
Matt: Distributed computing in Kepler
Matt: EML, the next version
Margaret: Publications in EML at SBC
ChadBurt: Web exploration and mapping for PISCO subtidal data
ChadBurt: Using google maps for data exploration -- mini how-to
Sabine: The evolving MCR data management system
Matt: CEO-P: realtime data in Kepler via Antelope and OpenDAP
Matt: LDAP, replication, certificates, failover, single sign on
Jordan: Drupal and CMS for scientific projects
Matt: Kepler and SEEK Wikis
Jordan: 3D web maps of intertidal data using R and Matlab
Chris: Physical Oceanography data access page
Margaret: OPeNDAP for ecological and oceanographic data
Chris: Metacat replication across PISCO
Chris: Harvesting metacat/eml to NODC using NetCDF format
Josh: Semantic extensions to Metacat and Morpho
ChadBurt: Video archiving for subtidal videos
MatthewP: Openlayers and web-GIS client software stacks
MatthewP: Using PostGIS behind scientific applications
MatthewP: OGC WMS and WFS -- mini how-to
Regetz: Ruby on Rails for scientific data
Local System setup
- Currently: Ben and Derik
- Helps with physical setup
- Slides/projector and iSight
- Marratech and/or iChat
- Also an option: VNC access to slides (see Sharing your Desktop with VNC)
- IRC backchannel for help
- Will rotate to another person approximately every quarter
Organizer
- Currently: Ben and Derik
- Solicits and identifies topics of interest
- Schedules volunteers for topics as they are available
- Will rotate to another person approximately every quarter
