SEA Open Discussion Series🔗︎

Beginning in 2023, the SEA has held regular (roughly every 1-2 months) open discussion events. Each event focuses on a particular topic of interest to the SEA community, with the goal of sharing knowledge, creating collaborations, breaking down silos, and building a community of practice.

These events are typically moderated by two individuals from the community. Moderators need not be Committee members - anyone can volunteer! If you would like to host an Open Discussion event for your particular topic of interest, please reach out to the SEA Steering Committee.

Next Discussion🔗︎

Subject: Developer Exchange Programs
Time: 10 October 2024 at 2 PM Mountain Time

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) at 2pm on October 10^th for a short presentation on developer exchange programs followed by a lightly-moderated discussion.

Inspired by the 'visiting scientist' concept, ACOM and Unidata piloted a Developer Exchange Program. From January to July of last year, Kyle Shores (ACOM) and Ward Fisher (Unidata) asynchronously dedicated a portion of their time working on projects across organizations. Kyle spent three months contributing cmake and modern build & test infrastructure expertise to the netCDF project at Unidata, after which Ward reciprocated with 3 three months of expertise in structured software engineering and cross-platform software development to the Musica project at ACOM. Kyle and Ward's work focused on how their skill sets could benefit the other's projects. With the successful completion of this pilot program, we want to gauge interest in expanding this program so that any software developer can participate.

If you wish to join us for this event and you are NCAR/UCAR Staff, add this event to your calendar. If you are external, please email Taysia Peterson for an invitation.

Past Discussions🔗︎