ToDo list for ERAD 2018 short course

[heistermann]

We are well converging towards a solution for the upcoming ERAD 2018 short course. Here's a ToDo list which we need to address well before.

The deadline for anything that affects the VM is June 11 2018. After that, the final VM image for the course will be built, and participants will be informed how to download and install.

ToDo VM (deadline: 11/6/2018)

• make sure all required Python intro session notebooks are up and running --> Scott
• make sure all required Py-ART notebooks are up and running --> Scott/Zach/Bobby
• make sure all required BALTRAD notebooks are up and running --> Daniel
• make sure all required wradlib notebooks are up and running --> Maik/Kai

ToDo program (deadline: 1/7/2018)

• finalise open source and open science presentation --> Daniel
• finalise git live demo session (no slides etc., just a demo of fork&pull) --> Maik/Kai

ToDo VM docs (deadline: 11/6/2018)

• revise the openradar/oss_weather_radar_vm/docs in order to make sure that the latest changes (e.g. conda environments!) are well represented in the docs. --> Maik
• build the docs and push to openradar/vm_docs --> Maik

ToDo course website (deadline: 11/6/2018)

The course website (http://openradarscience.org/erad2018/) contains some links through which we can provide additional information for individual course sessions. Could be only one sentence, or could be a detailed instruction, or just a link - it depdends on you. If you are resonsible for a session, you can modify the readme.md files in the subdirectories based on which the webpages will be rendered.

• add minimal info for open-science slot --> Daniel
• add minimal info for launch vm slot --> Maik
• add minimal info for python intro slot --> Scott
• add minimal info for git live demo --> Maik
• add minimal info for Py-ART slot --> Scott/Zach/Bobby
• add minimal info for BALTRAD slot --> Daniel
• add minimal info for wradlib slot --> Maik
• add minimal info for open slot --> Maik

ToDo Gitter (deadline: 15/6/2018)

If was suggested to use Gitter in order to communicate with the participants before the course. We could use the existing openradar/_ERAD2018 channel, if that's fine for you. In that case, we only need to

• inform participants to get a GitHub account and join the openradar/Lobby channel. --> Maik

ToDo openradarscience.org

The short course as well as the OSS keynote would be a good opportunity to advertise our https://openradarscience.org pages. The content basically lives in openradar/openradar-landing-page, so if you want to update anything, please submit a PR, e.g.

• update, extend and beautify https://openradarscience.org

[scollis]

Thanks @heistermann ! Will be getting to this soon

[DanielMichelson]

I will get to this after the coming week. Thanks.

[scollis]

Ditto for for our team. The week just finished was a morass of bureaucracy. We will huddle on Monday

[scollis]

Zach is still out sick.. We have started but progress is slow.. Will be done soon

[heistermann]

Had an issue when trying to build the VM with the latest changes (see openradar/oss_weather_radar_vm#46). Can anyone reproduce?

[heistermann]

Should be fixed by openradar/oss_weather_radar_vm#47.

[heistermann]

I've successfully built the VM with the latest changes, notebooks seems to run fine. Size is now 3.4 GB, as a result of including the Py-ART sample data.

[heistermann]

I've replaced the other 0.5.0 image here. Maybe you can give it a try and run it with VirtualBox.

[scollis]

Shock, horror, I have time this week :) I assume I use https://github.com/openradar/erad2018/tree/master/intro-python
And the aim is the 10 to 10:30 session?

[heistermann]

Exactly. You can use https://github.com/openradar/erad2018/tree/master/intro-python to provide content, but you can also use it just to provide a breif synopsis and entry point and then refer to a jupyter notebook that is then included in the VM built process.

[scollis]

Perfect.. So the repo is cloned and installed as part of the vagrant build.

So it looks like my slot will be the first time we use Python or Jupyter.

@heistermann are you using a conda env for wradlib section?

If you are, and it would be Baltrad that is the only code that uses a system Python I will make an env for the python bits or just use wradlib's env.yml

[heistermann]

@scollis No, this repo is not cloned as part of the vagrant built. openradar/erad2018 only contains the code for the course's web pages. Of course you can get/clone the material/notebooks for your Python intro slot onto the VM from anywhere and any repo.

And yes, wradlib and Py-ART are both using the openradar conda environment, BALTRAD is using the system's Python 2.7 environment. There shouldn't be any problem with just using the openradar environment for the Python intro, too.

[scollis]

Intro to python session set up via PR to OSS VM repo

[scollis]

Will update course instructions soon

[scollis]

@zssherman can you grab the latest oss_VM repo and double check that the intro notebooks run..

[zssherman]

@scollis Sounds good, I'll do that now.

[zssherman]

@scollis I did a pull request for the introductory python repository. Just a spelling error fix, but the notebook downloads when creating the VM and I get no errors, so looks good to me.

[heistermann]

Seems like we're converging...

What is the status on the following items?

• make sure all required Py-ART notebooks are up and running --> Scott/Zach/Bobby
• make sure all required BALTRAD notebooks are up and running --> Daniel

Are these ready to go?

@scollis add minimal info for python intro slot is still open. Do you want to add a sentence or two there?

[DanielMichelson]

All BALTRAD notebooks are up and running!