OPvCon
OPvCon
This first OpenPlanetary Virtual Conference was hosted on June 22-24, 2020. It consisted of lecture-length talks from invited speakers, networking opportunities during coffee breaks, workshops and tutorials, and a hackathon.
All times given are in Eastern Time (UTC-4).
Day 1 - Invited Lectures (Monday, June 22)
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome Remarks | OpenPlanetary team |
| 9:30-10:30 | Why’d They Do That? The Evolution of the PDS Archiving Standards | Anne Raugh & John S. Hughes |
| 10:30-11:30 | Between Mars and Svalbard: A Film About Scientists | Maarten Roos-Serote & Dan Brinkhuis |
| 11:30-12:00 | Networking / Coffee Break #1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Making Time on Mars | Zara Mirmalek |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Open Books, Open Budgets | Casey Dreier |
| 15:00-15:30 | Networking / Coffee Break #2 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Commercial Space: Beyond Earth | Tanya Harrison |
Day 2 - Workshops & Tutorials (Tuesday, June 23)
| Time | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | PDS Geosciences Node Services Update | Thomas Stein |
| 10:00-12:00 | Introduction to Planetary Updates and Tips for using GDAL | Trent Hare |
| 11:00-12:00 | NAIF’s Webgeocalc (WGC) Demo | Boris Semenov |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00-17:00 | Introduction to Planetary Image Analysis with ArcGIS | Sheri Loftin |
| 13:00-15:00 | Creating a PDS4 Archive | Sheri Loftin |
| 13:00-15:00 | How to live peacefully with Ana/Mini/Conda | Michael Aye |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-17:30 | Practical Software Project Management for Research | Chase Million |
| 15:30-16:30 | The Outer Planets Unified Search (OPUS) - Web Interface | Robert French |
| 16:30-17:30 | The Outer Planets Unified Search (OPUS) - API | Robert French |
Day 3 - Hackathons (Wednesday, June 24)
| Time | Title | Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | Introduction and Project Pitches | Chase Million |
| All Day | Your Hack Idea Here | - |
| All Day | PlanetaryPy | Michael Aye |
| All Day | OPUS - Hackathon with Python and the OPUS API | Robert French |
| 13:00-13:30 | Mid-Day Update | Chase Million |
| 16:00-16:30 | Final Updates | Chase Million |
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