NumFOCUS Project Summit
Get Ready for the NumFOCUS 2022 Project Summit!
The NumFOCUS 2022 Annual Project Summit is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country, Santa Rosa, CA September 21 – 23, 2022!
The Summit brings project representatives together to strengthen the NumFOCUS project network. Two full days of workshops, group discussions, and open collaboration will give projects the opportunity to focus on short and long-term sustainability strategies. The program will be guided by project input.
NumFOCUS staff, board members, and key stakeholders will be joining the summit to gain a better understanding of project needs and opportunities to provide additional support.
Schedule
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Unconference session topics can be proposed by opening an issue on our GitHub repo.
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| NumFOCUS Summit: Day 1 | ||||||
| Thursday, September 22 | ||||||
| Room | Alexander Valley I | Alexander Valley II | Sonoma Mountain | Chalk Hill | Russian River Valley Ballroom | |
| Time | Main Track | Unconference | Length (min) | |||
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast | 60 | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome & Opening Notes | 30 | ||||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Project introductions Each of the 38 projects attending the Summit gets 60 seconds. We will create a slide for each project with – their project name – their project logo – the names of the project representatives attending the Summit. They will quickly – introduce themselves in one to two sentences – introduce the project in one to two sentences – and then share a fun fact TBD. |
60 | ||||
| 10:30 – 10:40 | Unconference Intro Unconference Launch – to share with attendees how the Unconference will be planned and organized during the summit afternoons. |
10 | ||||
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Break | 20 | ||||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | NumFOCUS “State of the Union” An update and overview of NumFOCUS ‘s work over ten years to support projects in the open source scientific data stack. Where we’ve been and where we’re going. The session will start with a presentation followed by an open Q & A discussion. |
60 | ||||
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch | 90 | ||||
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Funding Panel A moderated panel discussion answering live and pre-submitted questions from project leaders. |
Unconference | Unconference | Unconference | 60 | |
| 2:40 – 3:40 | Shared Tutorial / Notebook Infrastructure A talk about JupyterBook + MyST + new advances in Jupyter(Binder)Hub. |
Unconference | Unconference | Unconference | 60 | |
| 3:40 – 4:30 | Break | 50 | ||||
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Interoperability Among Projects Interoperability among projects is emphasised by the ability of various open-source projects to work with or use the parts of functionality, features, governance model, community guidelines etc., with one another. Being interoperable solves a shared problem and flushes out the hidden flaws in the system/process when exposed to a more significant user base. There have been mutual efforts in the past initiated by several OSS projects to work on a shared technical functionality that benefitted the user and developer community of the projects involved. However, many efforts and feats have not surfaced, and we’d like to have an open discussion on this topic with the projects involved at the Summit. There would be a moderator to initiate and guide the conversation, and attendees are welcome to participate and share their thoughts. Please join us @ 16:30 in Alexander Valley I & II on 22nd September. |
Unconference | Unconference | Unconference | 60 | |
| 5:30 – 5:45 | Day 1 Closing Remarks | 15 | ||||
| 6:15 | Walk to Restaurant | 15 | ||||
| 6:30 – 9:00 | NumFOCUS Dinner Beer Baron Santa Rosa Come relax and let your hair down after a busy day of Project Summit meetings and discussions to join us for a fun, casual outing at a local establishment! |
150 | ||||
| NumFOCUS Summit: Day 2 | ||||||
| Friday, September 23 | ||||||
| Room | Alexander Valley I | Alexander Valley II | Sonoma Mountain | Chalk Hill | Russian River Valley Ballroom | |
| Time | Main Track | Unconference | Length (min) | |||
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast | 30 | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome & Opening Notes | 30 | ||||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Contributor/Maintainer Growth – What WorksA panel and open discussion on the successes and lessons learned from efforts to attract, onboard, and retain contributors and maintainers. We’d like to suggest attendees view Reshama Shaikh’s keynote from PyCon DE-PyData Berlin and read her blog “The Value of Open Source Sprints, the scikit-learn Experience” in preparation for this discussion – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUqJaCWPvmk, https://blog.scikit-learn.org/events/sprints-value/. | 60 | ||||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | 30 | ||||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Project Sustainability & Resiliency Every open-source project aims to be sustainable and can be achieved in various ways, like securing grants, expanding and engaging user/developer communities, informed decisions on what tools and practices to adopt, etc. Open-source projects are dynamic and continuously evolving systems. OSS projects can face a crisis from time to time financially and community-wise, like developers abandoning the project, less participation from the community, delayed feedback on issues etc. Being resilient plays a vital role and is a crucial component of the sustainability of projects. It focuses on how you tackle those issues and progress in the face of unfavourable situations. |
60 | ||||
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch | 90 | ||||
| 1:30 – 2:00 | NumFOCUS Programs & Services – Presentation This session will highlight several of NumFOCUS’s programs aimed at sustaining projects and their communities. Short informational presentations will be followed by breakouts taking a deeper dive into specific programs. |
30 | ||||
| 2:00 – 2:30 | NumFOCUS Programs Services – Breakout Session(s) | Breakout Session | Unconference | Unconference | 30 | |
| 2:40 – 3:10 | Diversity & Inclusion – Presentation This session will showcase work from 3 initiatives NumFOCUS has been focusing on in the area of Diversity and Inclusion. The hour will begin with a 30 minute presentation by representatives from the CDR research team, a researcher from the University of Toronto focusing on project cross-collaboration and reps from our DISC committee. Following the presentation we will move to breakout rooms to engage in deeper discussions on the material presented. |
30 | ||||
| 3:10 – 3:40 | Diversity & Inclusion – Breakout Session(s) | Breakout Session | Unconference | Unconference | 30 | |
| 3:40 – 4:30 | Break | 50 | ||||
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Closing Session | 60 | ||||
| 5:30 – 7:30 | Closing Reception – Wine Tasting and Appetizers Gather with everyone to say your goodbyes to all of the Project Summit 2022 attendees! |
120 | ||||
Venue and Travel
Main Summit Venue
Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country – Travel Information
170 Railroad Street, Santa Rosa, California, United States, 95401
Thursday Dinner Venue
Beer Baron, Santa Rosa
614 4th Street, Santa Rosa, California, United States, 95404
Airport
San Francisco International Airport (65 miles South of hotel)
Oakland International Airport (65 Miles South of hotel)
Sonoma County Airport (8.2 Miles North of hotel)
Shuttle information: https://www.airportexpressinc.com/
Buses pick up passengers at either Airport on an hourly basis. Shuttle arrives at Park&Ride 1.5 miles from the hotel. Guests will need to arrange rideshare to reach the venue.
Attendee Directory
| Name | Affiliation |
| Brian Granger | Advisory Council/AWS |
| Jason Grout | Advisory Council/Databricks |
| Mike McCarty | Advisory Council/NVIDIA |
| Travis E. Oliphant | Advisory Council/Quansight-OpenTeams |
| Peter Wang | Advisory Council/Anaconda |
| Georg Link | Bitergia |
| Andy Terrel | Advisory Council |
| James Powell | NF Board of Directors |
| Katrina Riehl | NF Board of Directors |
| Stéfan van der Walt | NF Board of Directors / NumPy |
| Abdoul Karim Coulibaly | Contributor Diversification and Retention Project |
| Shurui Zhou | Contributor Diversification and Retention Project / University of Toronto |
| Ivana Williams | CZI |
| Kate Hertweck | CZI |
| Reshama Shaikh | PyMC / Data Umbrella |
| Noa Tamir | DISC / Quansight labs |
| Alexy Kharborov | OSSci / IBM Accelerated Discovery |
| Oriol Abril Pla | ArviZ / PyMC |
| Ravin Kumar | ArviZ / PyMC |
| Erik Tollerud | AstroPy |
| Pey Lian Lim | AstroPy |
| Francesc Alted | Blosc |
| Marta Iborra Clari | Blosc |
| Ian Thomas | Bokeh |
| Bang-Shiuh Chen | Cantera |
| Wolf Vollprecht | conda-forge |
| Christopher Carroll | Econ-ARK |
| Matt McCormick | ITK |
| Oscar Dowson | JuMP |
| Ana Ruvalcaba | Jupyter |
| Chris Holdgraf | Jupyter / 2i2c |
| Matthias Bussonnier | Jupyter / IPython |
| Ryan May | matplotlib |
| Thomas Caswell | matplotlib |
| Fiona Naughton | MDAnalysis |
| Irfan Alibay | MDAnalysis |
| Marcus Edel | mlpack |
| Mridul Seth | NetworkX |
| Ross Barnowski | NetworkX |
| Matthew Brett | nibabel |
| Inessa Pawson | NumPy |
| Melissa Weber Mendonça | NumPy |
| Daniel S. Katz | Open Journals |
| Monica Bobra | Open Journals |
| Ian Quah | OpenFHE |
| Christopher Delp | OpenMBEE |
| Jason Han | OpenMBEE |
| Justine West | OpenMBEE |
| Jeff Reback | pandas |
| Patrick Hoefler | pandas |
| Karthik Ram | rOpenSci |
| Brigitta Sipőcz | Scientific Python |
| Jarrod Millman | Scientific Python |
| Juanita Gomez | Scientific Python |
| Gregory Lee | scikit-image |
| Avik Pal | SciML |
| Frank Schaefer | SciML |
| Matt Haberland | SciPy |
| Nicholas McKibben | SciPy |
| Tirth Patel | SciPy |
| Sean Pinkney | Stan |
| Will Barnes | SunPy |
| Aaron Meurer | SymPy |
| Wolfgang Kerzendorf | TARDIS |
| Anderson Banihirwe | xarray |
| Joe Hamman | xarray |
| Madicken Munk | yt |
| John Kirkham | Zarr |
| Ryan Williams | Zarr |
| Sanket Verma | Zarr |
| Jean-Robin Medori | Advisory Council / Taipy |
| Arliss Collins | NF Developer Advocate |
| Carolyn Rodon | NF Communications & Marketing Mgr. |
| Gayle Ollington | Events Manager |
| Jim Weiss | NF Director of Events & Resources |
| Leah Silen | NF Executive Director |
| Lindsay Stecher | NF Grants Coordinator |
| Lisa Martin | NF Financial Adminstrator |
| Nicole Foster | NF Operations Manager |
| Samina Trachier | NF Digital Marketing & Events Manager |
| Tomara Youngblood | NF Events Manager |
| Lynn Brubaker | NF Project Finance Manager |
Health and Safety Guidelines
Based on recent data available from the CDC, face coverings will be required for everyone while participating in the Project Summit.
Wearing a well-fitting mask in indoor public spaces, regardless of your vaccination status, can help protect you and everyone close to you.
Exceptions are:
- Outdoor spaces
- Indoors while consuming food and while socially distanced from other participants
- While necessary for communicating with someone who is hearing impaired when the ability to see the mouth is essential for communication
- Speakers while presenting
ATTENDANCE
Individuals should not attend the event if they are COVID-positive, are exhibiting COVID symptoms (as defined by the CDC), or have been exposed, within 10 days prior to the event, to someone who was COVID-positive or showed COVID symptoms.
Code of Conduct
We value the participation of each Summit attendee and want everyone to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the Summit and at all Summit-related events, whether officially sponsored by NumFOCUS or not. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.
We reproduce here certain portions of the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct that are specifically relevant to in-person events. We encourage all Summit attendees to review the complete Code of Conduct.