Hold regular telecons

Call Time and Access Codes

The new regular call time is Fridays at 12:30-2PM PDT every other week starting June 12. To join the meeting:

1. Online:
   • Join WebEx meeting
   • Select "GeoSoft GPF"
   • Meeting number: 808 758 523
   • Meeting password: geo123

1. By phone
   • Call 1-650-479-3208
   • Access code: 808 758 523

The old call time is Fridays at 2-3:30PM PDT every other week in Spring 2015 starting February 6. The time was selected based on a doodle poll.

Telecon Friday February 6, 2015

To prepare for the call, you should select a paper that you would like to use for the work. It could be a paper of yours (published or in preparation), or a seminal paper by someone else in your field that you would like to reproduce/understand/make available to the community in a better format. You can form a team to work on the same paper if you prefer.

Agenda

1. What is a GPF and what it would entail
   • Discussion: What is a GPF
2. Planning the GPF activities for the next 4-5 months
   • Review proposed timeline
3. Questions from everyone about their particular papers
4. How the web site works
   • Learn the basics of how wikis work: Quick Guide to Using a Wiki, or the detailed User's Guide.
   • The left side is for navigating different tasks. You won't need to create tasks yourself, but if you are curious about how to do that see here.

Meeting Notes

Everyone can help take notes during the meeting by editing this shared document.

Telecon Friday February 20, 2015

Agenda

1. Training on how to use this wiki, here is an overview
2. Report from everyone on the prior task: ensuring software is usable
3. Training about the next task: making data accessible, here are the slides for the presentation, further readings are provided here

Meeting Notes

Everyone can help take notes during the meeting by editing this shared document.

Telecon Friday March 6, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from everyone on the prior task: making data accessible
2. Training about the next task: document the provenance of the results, here are the slides for the presentation
3. Q/A about F2F meeting

Face-to-Face Meeting March 13, 2015

Agenda

1. Writing a proposal for the special issue that we can bring up to the publisher/editors. Here is an outline/draft of what it should contain
   • Write an introduction, here are some notes
   • Include a brief description of each paper, here are some notes
   • Discuss the criteria to consider a submission for this special issue, i.e., what is a GPF and how will we tell reviewers to judge the papers. Here are some notes
   • Agree on the editors for the special issue
   • Agree to a tentative timeline
2. Review of the timeline of tasks
   • Is everyone clear on what needs to be done? What topics should we cover in upcoming telecons: GitHub, WINGS, PROV, Standard Names,...?
3. Review the status of each paper
4. Plan the joint overview article

Telecon Friday March 20, 2015

Agenda

1. Summary of the F2F meeting and the plans for the special issue
2. Report from everyone on the prior task: document the provenance of the results
3. Training about the next task: Document the data analysis method as a workflow

Telecon Friday April 3, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from everyone on the prior task: Documenting the data analysis method as a workflow
2. Training about the next task: Making software accessible

Telecon Friday April 17, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from everyone on the prior task: Making software accessible
2. Training about the next task: Making software executable by others

Telecon Friday May 1, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from everyone on the prior task: Making software executable by others
2. Training about the next task: Documenting software by specifying metadata
   • Using GeoSoft

Telecon Friday May 15, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from everyone on the prior task: Documenting software by specifying metadata
2. Training about the next task: Documenting domain characteristics of software

Face-To-Face Meeting at the EarthCube AHM, Wednesday May 27, 2015

Agenda

1. Announcement of the Special Issue of AGU Earth and Space Science on Geoscience Papers of the Future
2. The Geoscience Paper of the Future Initiative
3. Report from everyone on the prior task: Documenting domain characteristics of software
4. Report from everyone about timeline for remaining tasks to do on their papers and for writing the final draft for submission to the special issue

Telecon Friday June 12, 2015

Agenda

1. Report from the EarthCube poster and session presentations
2. The choice of submission for each article: research article or technical report
   • Tentative categories
3. A proposal for a format for the GPF aspects of the papers
   • Publisher's required format
4. Plan timeline for each submission
5. Planning to get the joint paper written (by June 25?)
   • Raw outline and first draft are available here

Training Catch Up Thursday June 18, 2015

• Special time: 8:30-10am PDT
• Call-in details:
  • Use this Webex link or call 1-650-479-3208
  • Meeting number/access code: 807 035 115
  • Meeting password: special

• Schedule:
  • 8:30-9 — Publishing and citing data
  • 9-9:30 — Publishing and citing software
  • 9:30-10 — Describing workflows and provenance of results

Telecon Friday June 19, 2015

Agenda

1. A proposal for a GPF checklist for authors
2. Review contributions and status of joint paper
3. Thoughts on the GPF Initiative: partners, sponsors, steering committee, etc.