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📅 March 19 @juliesquid@fosstodon.org will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.
Everyone welcome. Details: https://openscapes.org/events/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/
📣 Come work with us at @openscapes@fosstodon.org ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Suborbital Team Member to support NASA Openscapes’ initiative and improve access and use of NASA suborbital data through reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025 to start as early as December 2025.
Details including pay rate: https://openscapes.org/connect#work-with-us
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✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used!
by @sbreitbart@fosstodon.org Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering.
Published at:
https://nmfs-ost.github.io/noaa-fit-resources/developer%20resources/software-cheatsheet/
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-22-make-your-own-software-cheatsheet/
Openscapes founding director @juliesquid@fosstodon.org received the Greg Leptoukh Lecture Award at AGU 2025. This post shares slides & overview of her lecture, official citation for her award written by NASA Openscapes Mentors Aaron Friesz (now at ESIP), Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, plus Allison Horst, plus Julie's official response.
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/
Learn how NASA @nasaearthdata@bird.makeup works with @thecarpentries@fosstodon.org and @openscapes@fosstodon.org to support coding and teaching skills for building a stronger #OpenScience community.
The workshop takes place on October 5 from 11 AM-12 PM, EDT (UTC-4). Learn how to participate: https://go.nasa.gov/3EVGhLW
✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop.
🐾 A "crossing the chasm" analogy that links puppies to GitHub governance and examples of work that Fisheries Openscapes Mentors and contributors did during "co-creation" sessions at our 1-day workshop.
https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2025-08-19-nmfs-mentors-workshop/
✍🏼 blog post: Openscapes Mentor communities are Communities of Practice.
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-07-15-community-of-practice/
✍🏼 blog post: On-ramp to FAIR data in the EarthCODE Federation. Recap and celebration of our first ESA Openscapes Champions Cohort.
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-06-30-esa-champions-2026/
Thanks to our partners , EarthCODE, Lampata, with Anca Anghelea, Dean Summers, Krasen Samardzhiev and participants!
📣 Call to Action: civic engagement for science infrastructure
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-06-16-civic-engagement/
Training opportunity: Reimagining complex data-intensive reports. A 5-day course for ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. June 22 - 26, 2026.
Led by @juliesquid@fosstodon.org (Openscapes), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), @gavinfay@fosstodon.org (UMass Dartmouth).
Openscapes update from @juliesquid@fosstodon.org , Spring 2026.
On being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture.
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-03-19-openscapes-update/
✍🏼📣We're expanding our support of open Earth science with NASA Openscapes Mentors, with additional focus supporting suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows.
Welcoming Ronny Hernández Mora to the Openscapes team to support this work!
https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03-03-suborbital/
✍🏼Cloud migration and data preservation progress across NOAA Fisheries - Fall 2025 Champions Recap.
Connecting people within & across centers as they learn new skills for data workflows. Immediately relevant for their work. Enables change that wasn’t possible before.
✍️ People, structure, mechanics: How we led the earthaccess December 15 Hackday online and in New Orleans
earthaccess is a Python library that simplifies access to NASA Earth science data. We designed the event to focus on building the community of contributors & adopters.
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-02-04-earthaccess-dec15-hackday/
Thanks to our wildly effective, generous, and kind Mentors community from NASA, NOAA, CA Water Boards, Fred Hutch, & beyond, our partners & collaborators, experts from our extended network, and contributors and users (users are also contributors!).
Rachael Blake & Kate Wing of Intertidal Agency, @2i2c_org@hachyderm.io @developmentseed@fosstodon.org Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum - CNG, @njtierney@aus.social @scheidegger@mastodon.social of @Posit@fosstodon.org, & Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-28-news-jan-2026/
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✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess.
Links to recording, slides, notes doc
https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11-27-nasa-champions-2025-summary/
Registration open (free!).
NASA Openscapes invites you to join our annual Champions Program, this year focused on “A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess”. Come expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud.
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#champions-program-details
Openscapes Community Call Tues July 29: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata.
A story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new tech features.
Details & register (free) https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-07-29-community-call-earthaccess/