Meeting 2016-08-26

[RaoOfPhysics]

Meeting Time Poll: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/opencosmics_201608/
Meeting Date and Time: 26 August 2016, 16:00 CEST
Present: @153957, @Tontonis, @tpmccauley
See also: #mozsprint notes #41

Agenda

1. Request from IPPOG for contacting other cosmic-ray projects
2. APPEC interest: how to proceed?
3. [NOT DISCUSSED] Discuss use cases for Open Cosmics Common Data Format
   • Open Cosmics Common Data Format Use Case OC-UC-001 #19
   • Open Cosmics Common Data Format Use Case OC-UC-002 #38
4. [NOT DISCUSSED] Feedback on Migrating datasets: motivations and recommendations #31

Notes

Scratchpad: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/opencosmics-general-notes

1. Request from IPPOG for contacting other cosmic-ray projects
   • Thought to be a reasonable starting point to curate information about existing cosmic-ray projects
   • Rather than circulating e-mail with questions in body, a Google Form should be created and circulated to all project contacts identified by Charles et al.
   • Seek feedback from Open Cosmics list to created form before circulating
2. APPEC interest: how to proceed?
   • Quoting parts of e-mail from Charles Timmermans:
     • ‘I have been contacted by Frank Linde, head of APPEC [http://www.appec.org/], about if we can work together on “enabling cosmic rays worldwide”.’
     • ‘It would be nice to work with APPEC to create a portal that is useful for high school students and teachers. In my (personal) opinion OpenCosmics has an appealing open source model to work with, but needs more than that to also make it useful for outreach.’
   • Discussion feedback:
     • Open Cosmics can work with APPEC and learn from their experience and contacts. Ignore if they get bureaucratic.
     • Need to have a way to get across to people depending on what the audience might be. Have better pages describing what difference audiences might want to do.
     • Open Cosmics model (and website) are good enough to serve as portal, with links to Zenodo for data/tools as needed. No need to build separate website.

Actions

1. Request from IPPOG for contacting other cosmic-ray projects
   • TODO: @RaoOfPhysics to create Google Form with questions to circulate to project contacts
     • See: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMDXm1Zx7yylMO7EiQda1jia5t2k3tMQ3ce7HaARADp1hBUw/viewform?hl=en
   • @RaoOfPhysics to solicit feedback from Open Cosmics et al.
   • @RaoOfPhysics to circulate form to persons identified
2. APPEC interest: how to proceed?
   • TODO: @RaoOfPhysics to send Eurocosmics proposal to list
   • TODO: Update Open Cosmics landing page with details for different audiences / scope of tools/data
3. Important! Provide feedback on use cases for Open Cosmics Common Data Format:
   • Open Cosmics Common Data Format Use Case OC-UC-001 #19
   • Open Cosmics Common Data Format Use Case OC-UC-002 #38
4. Important! @RaoOfPhysics to refine Migrating datasets: motivations and recommendations #31