From 95d94f620195c00f5e9c9b5f8b29628849f319dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefanie Butland Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:55:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add recording link, update txt --- blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd b/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd index 6d945af..37dd2f9 100644 --- a/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd +++ b/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd @@ -11,19 +11,25 @@ categories: image: leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg --- +*Quicklinks:* + +- [*Slides*](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10RbeoshmsHx06ZIFA1x-KERbrMkcBtnOtFVyt9UCs5o/edit?slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0#slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0) *& [Recording](https://youtu.be/GPFa6_o7GRQ) - "Forking as a Worldview": How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.* + +- [*Summary post*](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/) *with official AGU citation & Julie's abstract.* + *Cross-posted at* [openscapes.org/events](https://openscapes.org/blog)*, [nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog](https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog)*, [*nasa-openscapes.github.io/news*](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news.html). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At the AGU 2025 Fall Meeting Julie Lowndes, Openscapes founding director, received the [AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture Award](https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh). This award celebrates the life of an inspiring Earth scientist in our community and recognizes significant contributions to informatics, computational, or data sciences through research, education, and related activities. -We're lucky that Julie will give her talk again so we can all tune in. It will be recorded. +This represents so much shared joy from our community, including the nomination by NASA Mentors + Allison Horst, and co-authoring with the Openscapes core team. + +A [summary post](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/) includes the official AGU citation, Julie's abstract, and links to slides and recording. **Date**: March 19, 2026\ **Time**: 10:00 am Pacific Time; 1:00 pm Eastern Time\ -**Where**: remotely, [via Zoom](https://agu.zoom.us/j/99945375572?pwd=sdDH5cy8uvnwy5DaTub1MkJdNjdkI9.1) - -This represents so much shared joy from our community, including the nomination by NASA Mentors + Allison Horst, and co-authoring with the Openscapes core team. Details with the official AGU citation, Julie's abstract, and slides are [posted](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/).\ +\ ::: {style="text-align:center;"} ![Aaron Friesz, Amy Steiker, Sudhir Shrestha, Julie Lowndes, Danie Kinkade, Alex Lewandowski, Luis Lopez as Julie receives Leptoukh Award, AGU 2025.](leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg){fig-alt="6 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science" fig-align="center" width="50%"} From 98d779503319b6e6056ca4fbcbf5be5e7252e41b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefanie Butland Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:23:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] add resources --- .../index.qmd | 32 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/index.qmd b/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/index.qmd index f25aaa3..fb5e312 100644 --- a/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/index.qmd +++ b/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/index.qmd @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ author: date: 2026-01-15 citation: url: https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes -categories: [blog, noaa-fisheries, nasa-framework] +categories: [blog, noaa-fisheries, nasa-framework, how-we-work] image: leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg bibliography: references.bib --- @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ bibliography: references.bib *The blog shares a quick overview of my lecture. It focuses on the official citation for my award written by NASA Openscapes Mentors Aaron Friesz (now at ESIP), Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, plus Allison Horst, and my official response. I will give the lecture again online in early 2026 – we will share details when we know – and we will update this post with a recording.* +*I gave a reprise of the lecture online in March 2026. Resources shared in that session are included at the bottom of this post.* + *Quicklinks:* -- [*Slides*](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10RbeoshmsHx06ZIFA1x-KERbrMkcBtnOtFVyt9UCs5o/edit?slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0#slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0) *- ”Forking as a Worldview”: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science* +- [*Slides*](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10RbeoshmsHx06ZIFA1x-KERbrMkcBtnOtFVyt9UCs5o/edit?slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0#slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0) *& [Recording](https://youtu.be/GPFa6_o7GRQ)* *- ”Forking as a Worldview”: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science* - [*https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh*](https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh) - [*https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh/past-recipients*](https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh/past-recipients) @@ -72,3 +74,29 @@ We’ve got more work to do. As Johnson & Wilkinson write in “[All We Can Save **Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes**\ **Openscapes**\ **Founding director** + +### Resources + +These are some additional resources and discussion points shared after my presentation. + +- [rladies/rladiesguide](https://github.com/rladies/rladiesguide) - RLadies is an amazing example of this infrastructure for scaling - distributing control. + +- [anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai](https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/) - Anil Dash on use of AI, "You're more the conductor of the symphony than someone who's holding a violin." + +- [Unicorns, Show Ponies, and Gazelles](https://radiant.earth/blog/2024/01/unicorns-show-ponies-and-gazelles/), Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant Earth + +- [Online co-working partnerships are community of practice in action](https://www.cscce.org/2020/02/04/online-co-working-partnerships-are-community-of-practice-in-action/), Naomi Penfold, Stefanie Butland + +- My 2 cents to Julia’s question re: cool tools / ideas to share — I’ve found the idea of dependency management via project-level lock files and “virtual environments” is really powerful, even if you’re working by yourself on just one computer. The tooling for this has gotten dramatically better in the last few years. In python, there’s uv . In R, there’s renv . For cross-platform conda-based stuff, there’s pixi . Beyond that, there are tools like Nix, mise, etc. that do similar things. + +- [earthaccess](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is a great example of scaling a community, from \~ 1 engineer to a big group of contributors who have developed a governance system. + +- biweekly earthaccess hacks open to all [earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/calendar](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/calendar/). + +- “how to get started?” 1:1 coworking is so powerful. Also Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science: [onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11341](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11341), Lowndes et al, 2024 - co-authored with Openscapes Mentors). + +- Supporting NASA suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows (and growing the NASA Openscapes Mentors community) - [nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03-03-suborbital](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03-03-suborbital/). + +- I wrote about being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture: [openscapes.org/blog/2026-03-19-openscapes-update](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-03-19-openscapes-update/). + +- Forking enables a science gift economy… “That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes. This is hard to grasp for societies steeped in notions of private property, where others are, by definition, excluded from sharing” ([Kimmerer](https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/books) 2013). From bf8cd89d29f7eac1f0722bd693765b4c0011a6c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefanie Butland Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:35:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] link to summary post on nmfs site not openscapes --- blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd b/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd index 37dd2f9..dc2da34 100644 --- a/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd +++ b/blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ image: leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg - [*Slides*](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10RbeoshmsHx06ZIFA1x-KERbrMkcBtnOtFVyt9UCs5o/edit?slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0#slide=id.g3af247f9d45_0_0) *& [Recording](https://youtu.be/GPFa6_o7GRQ) - "Forking as a Worldview": How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.* -- [*Summary post*](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/) *with official AGU citation & Julie's abstract.* +- [*Summary post*](https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/) *with official AGU citation & Julie's abstract.* *Cross-posted at* [openscapes.org/events](https://openscapes.org/blog)*, [nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog](https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog)*, [*nasa-openscapes.github.io/news*](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news.html).