I see dates for the 2024 Dataverse Community Meeting at https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/
"March 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Headquarters in Texcoco (Mexico)"
Here's the official announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/SniRq61YoXo/m/_mg-iL5zHQAJ
What topics are you interested in? Please fill out the survey! https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5HhThOU5ABuS1w
... via https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/SniRq61YoXo/m/jctcTgMWHgAJ
Philip Durbin disse:
I see dates for the 2024 Dataverse Community Meeting at https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/
"March 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Headquarters in Texcoco (Mexico)"
This new date was a surprise ; ( as the month of June was pre-scheduled. But it was good that you are announcing it in advance, in any case it creates some entropy to be able to be present - let's do our best to participate from Portugal.
Yes! I hope you can participate!
Will it be both in person and online, or only in person like in Braga? We were namely thinking of having a sustainability WG meeting there, but if it's only in person, then that's probably not realistic to expect from all members of the WG.
Not sure. I think we'd need to reach out to the organizing committee at https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/
I'll do that then :+1: Though, I can only find the support@dataverse.harvard.edu address.
Hmm, very good point. No other contact information listed.
I sent a short mail anyway, who knows, maybe they know who to ask.
Yeah. And the survey above is still open for two days.
It's more about topics though. Maybe you could put something under "other".
We just earlier today filled that in. So, I can redo it and bump up the count of our choices, but I guess that's not the intention :sweat_smile: . I'll first wait to see if I get a response on the email.
Your email generated this ticket: https://help.hmdc.harvard.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=351864
I'll try to remember to check back to see the response.
Hmm, no response yet.
This just in: "If your group is planning to attend this event, please reach out to me via email or reply to this post." --Sonia at https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Uwu1tphUrSc/m/ulr1n0u_AQAJ
The call for proposals is now open: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/CoiI3pxlR2o/m/oDNGot8ZCQAJ
"Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2023, 11:59pm EST"
@Dieuwertje Bloemen I just nudged the person who was assigned your #351864: Dataverse Community Meeting 2024: hybrid or not? ticket and you should have gotten a reply.
Yep, just saw the answer come in as being undecided for now:
"Hi Dieuwertje,
We are currently organizing the upcoming Community Meeting. Hybrid/streaming options have not been finalized as of this moment. Please follow the Community Meeting website (https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/) as more info will be announced. Also
Best,
Dwayne"
better than "no", I guess :grinning:
Hi there, any update on this? Hybrid options considered?
Sonia and Ceilyn just got back from a visit to CIMMYT. At standup today Ceilyn said there is nice audio visual equipment.
proposal deadline extended until Jan 5: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/21hiO50z9XE/m/u14uM5bOAAAJ
Proposals are due today! https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/gLrCJzCOB_w/m/nQDScgZqAgAJ
Also, there's now an issue tracking the event here: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-pm/issues/156
Discount code for GDCC members: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/YG-bB7kBLFk/m/XbfU_KpGAgAJ
Registration is open: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/N8ZZDJ7wjx4/m/-Jotq7iLAgAJ
I'm getting all my travel approved!!! I'll be there! Who else from IQSS is coming
Who else from Dataverse Community is coming?
Last I heard 8 people (including me) from IQSS are going.
I'm glad to hear you'll be there, Sherry!
No funds, no way to go... :unamused:
Question about the 10th Anniversary Dinner - I assume all IQSS will be there? Anyone know what special things will be going on?
I'm planning on going to the dinner but I don't have any details, sorry.
More details to come, I'm told. :grinning:
I'll be at the community meeting! So excited to meet you all in person!
@Sherry Lake at https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/ there are some more details now:
"Get Ready to Celebrate 10 Years of the Dataverse Community!
Join us in Mexico for an unforgettable celebration of a decade of achievements, collaboration, and innovation within the community. Experience Mexican culture with mariachi music and delicious food. Enjoy exciting activities like raffles, contests, and surprises. See you there!"
I was just thinking... it's nice that Zulip is already going this year. We can talk in this thread before, during, and after the community meeting.
We need to get more Dataverse-folk on Zulip.
Well, maybe the community meeting is a good opportunity.
Pump up the fun. Draw them in. :grinning:
I started a thread for that: #community > Getting more people on Zulip :grinning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7gkNxpCzI
"Popocatepetl volcano spews steam and ash that could reach Mexico City" ^^
This just in, a visitor guide:
Being a somehow late addition to our team, I have a strong interest in Dataverse (setup, management & support) and NIST 800-171 compliance. NIST 800-53 compliance would be a great, dream-like bonus. I am eager to meet colleagues with same interest in Texcoco!
@Steve Baroti cool. Welcome! See you there! Please feel free to start a new thread (topic) here in Zulip about NIST compliance.
According to https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/vaac/volcanoes/POPOCATEPETL.html (thanks, Jim Myers for finding this!), the wind is blowing the ash away from Texcoco:
kind of late question .. does anyone know if we need to convert money for mexico? (ie: to pay drivers, etc .. ) and where to do it? (i'm clueless)
Oh, I was planning on finding an ATM at the airport. I'm not sure how much cash we'll need.
@Don Sizemore already has pesos. I'll bum a couple off him. :grinning:
at the airport in mexico? if you do that, does it give you mexican dollars? :big_smile:
It better. Well, pesos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_peso
i was going to say pesos, but wasn't sure if that was for just coins or all money :-)
@Deirdre Kirmis I asked my very-well-traveled supervisor this question, and he said "I usually just find an ATM once I get to the foreign airport." I myself converted $400US to $6400MXN at my local credit union, and will pay cash when credit isn't an option.
@Deirdre Kirmis I also snagged a "universal" power adapter in a liquidation store for $6, claims to work across 170 countries, though I understand the only significant difference between US and MEX power outlets is their lack of polarized sockets.
oh wow i didn't even think about the power thing! glad you mentioned that too .. i will look for an adapter tomorrow (and likely will go exchange money beforehand too) :smile: .. thanks!
@Don Sizemore did you get something like this?
but cheaper :laughing:
I bet @Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva can tell us if we need a special power adapter or not. I didn't think so but now I'm not sure.
was talking to a coworker who just got back from mexico and she says you don't need one .. i ordered one and will bring just to be safe (if not just for multiple USB ports for charging) :smile:
Power outlets are the same :grinning:
My Apple devices don't use polarized plugs, and they're what I care about. I can do without my electric razor =)
The only thing I can think is different is we use metric system :sweat_smile:
So if you are driving probably the car will show kmph speed
I don't think there's an emoji that can properly convey my feelings about the US not using the metric system. :upside_down:
Info on transportation and housing: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/rNKeepi1VtA/m/cBAufCNdAAAJ
Phew! I just finished my slides and sent them off. I hope people like my talk! https://dcm2024.sched.com/event/1YamR/community-updates
Departing soon from the airport in Boston! :airplane_departure:
Safe trips! How is Logan? I normally get there like 5:00 am lol
About as busy as I've ever seen. Long security lines.
There's a WhatsApp group forming. Please DM me your number if you want in.
About to land in Mexico City
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CIMMYT!
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Dinner at El Original de Texcoco
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Is that Mixiote @Philip Durbin ?
Yes! delicious!
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Sunrise over CIMMYT
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registration
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PID workshop is underway
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Where is @Don Sizemore ?
Found him!
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:partying_face:
Earlier...
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Man I would go to none of the talks and just zoom it from the pool :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
Brazza in Texcoco
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I love the "In case of earthquake" sign :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
Someone's birthday
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Philip Durbin said:
Of course Phil couldn't 'contain' himself from posting a picture about containers :clown: :tada:
@Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva _groooooaaaannn_
To take notes on the GDCC talk: https://tinyurl.com/gdcc2024
Earlier, at 7am... a 30 minute run along the perimeter of the CIMMYT campus
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World population
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Norman Borlaug for his work at CIMMYT
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Maize in the cold room
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This wheat has a DOI: https://doi.org/10.18730/CBYD7
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Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
Cees is talking about his interest in DarwinCore: #6243
I agree... super confusing that "Dataverse" means three things!
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https://ddialliance.github.io/ddi-cdi-sample-generator/
https://github.com/ddialliance/ddi-cdi-sample-generator
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That speaks to my soul :in_love:
Ha. The food is so good.
Thanks for sharing the impressions! I'm jealous but wish y'all a great time! Keep the photos comin' :smile:
hot dog for breakfast
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I am going to pretend I didnβt see that picture :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
@Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva @Philip Durbin they are not considered Sonoran hot dogs here, according to the gentleman who served me. if you're ever in Tucson, get a Sonoran hot dog which will be wrapped in bacon and include jalapeΓ±o in the salsa.
You guys could have Tamales why :hotdog: :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
No tamales on offer today. :sob:
@Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva everything the Comedor has offered has been wonderful. fresh-squeezed orange juice, salsas that are actually hot, cactus in the eggs
I am glad you guys are having a good time :blush:
Hearing about the "doomsday vault": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
for those who were startled by the bird calls between the Comedor and the conference building, my boss says they are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-tailed_grackle
I wonder if that's the screechy one
I told him that the cry was somewhere between a parrot and a hawk, and he said, "oh, grackle."
Steve Baroti said:
Being a somehow late addition to our team, I have a strong interest in Dataverse (setup, management & support) and NIST 800-171 compliance. NIST 800-53 compliance would be a great, dream-like bonus. I am eager to meet colleagues with same interest in Texcoco!
It's been nice hanging out with you! Please feel free to start a new topic about compliance with those NIST standards.
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Reminder for me to teach everyone to pronounce Teotihuacan next time :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
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@Philip Durbin you tried the grasshoppers?!
Oh yes
:partying_face::heart_hands:
And the famous barbacoa
:peace_sign:
Containerization Working Group
pyDataverse Working Group
Pic from https://twitter.com/BlueJeansDiva/status/1765748515718721969
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Third talk by Slava!
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Presenting the Institute for the Future of Education collection at https://datahub.tec.mx/dataverse/ife and a dataset at https://doi.org/10.57687/FK2/PWJRSJ
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"OpenAPI was broken but @Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva, the savior, fixed it" -- @Jan Range
:tear: @Jan Range
(Pics of the Dataverse Cup to come.)
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Congrats to new core team member @Eryk Kulikowski !
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Next year we'll be at UNC!
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@Don Sizemore I can bring my Mariachi an my PiΓ±ata :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
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Jay showing Phil how to add Traefik to our Docker config
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heyo all! joining the community as y'all seem like cool kids, based on the many chats at the conference! :wink: I'm a (Technical) Product Manager & Designer at RSpace. Keen to get involved with the UX Working group as I've previously done a buncha work on our own docs & can translate a lot of the learnings to Dataverse. :big_smile: & feel free to ping me if we didn't get a chance to chat at the conf!
Welcome, Vaida! It was nice hanging out!
Philip Durbin said:
Welcome, Vaida! It was nice hanging out!
likewise! :big_smile: btw i heard there's quite a few chats for dataverse-- zulip, slack, matrix (retired?)-- is this the best place to be at?
Matrix is retired
Yes, this is the best place :grinning:
To give my family a sense of what CIMMYT does, I showed them this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVKubehsjZ8
New blog post! https://dataverse.org/blog/harvesting-data-field-cloud-2024-dataverse-community-meeting
Including this pic:
And this:
Photos are now available! https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/photos/
I also posted the link here: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/utziTVUtudo/m/GXw3lo9IBQAJ
Philip Durbin said:
Photos are now available! https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/photos/
@Don Sizemore Were you fixing the demo on that picture? :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
Philip Durbin said:
Photos are now available! https://sites.harvard.edu/dcm2024/photos/
I also posted the link here: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/utziTVUtudo/m/GXw3lo9IBQAJ
finally can share proof of my football prowess with the rest of RSpace...
Videos are now available! https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/z7Q8nFTbEsg/m/SykvNxjYAwAJ
Here's a handy playlist: https://tinyurl.com/Dataverse2024Videos
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