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.

Wednesday Welcome Reception

Wednesday Welcome ReceptionWednesday, September 21 – 7:00-9:00pm, Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country – Sonoma Valley Garden

  • Please join us for a dinner reception to welcome everyone and kick off the NumFOCUS 2022 Project Summit!

 

Schedule


Click here to view the schedule as a Google Spreadsheet

Unconference session topics can be proposed by opening an issue on our GitHub repo.

To view session information, hover your cursor [or click on mobile] the session section on the schedule.

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


A message from the Project Summit Committee: Our attendees’ health and safety remain our top priority as we continue to monitor COVID-19 and look to venue, local, CDC, and WHO guidelines to make the best and most informed decisions around onsite safety and requirements.
MASKS
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


Attendees at the NumFOCUS Summit are subject to the NumFOCUS 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.