Community Dynamics Toolbox

h1. First Community Workshop

h2. Goals

* Develop ideas for larger synthesis across systems

* Introduce scientists to the concept of workflow systems

* Introduce scientists to open data and methods sharing

* Gather requirements for collaboration tools that would allow scientists to use them and share data and workflows.

h2. Participants

Ilkay Altintas, UC San Diego, altintas at sdsc.edu

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis, cboettig at gmail.com

Erica Christensen, Utah State, erica.christensen at weecology.org

Elsa Cleland, UCSD, ecleland at ucsd.edu

Scott Collins, U New Mexico, scollins at sevilleta.unm.edu

Sam Fey, Dartmouth, Samuel.B.Fey.GR at dartmouth.edu

Corinna Gries, U Wisconsin, cgries at wisc.edu

Lauren Hallett, Berkeley, lauren.m.hallett at gmail.com

Stan Harpole, Iowa State, harpole at iastate.edu

Dave Harris, UC Davis, harry491 at gmail.com

Matt Jones, UC Santa Barbara, jones at nceas.ucsb.edu

Sydney Jones, U New Mexico, syd at sevilleta.unm.edu

Julie Ripplinger, Arizona State University, julie.ripplinger at asu.edu

Andrew Rypel, WDNR, andrew.rypel at wisconsin.gov

David Seekell, UVa, das9xx at virginia.edu

Elizabeth Siddon, U. Alaska Fairbanks, ecsiddon at alaska.edu

Eric Sokol, Virginia Tech, sokole at vt.edu

Lizzie Wolkovitch, UCSD/Harvard, lizzie at biodiversity.ubc.ca, wolkovich at fas.harvard.edu

h2. Agenda

|_\3<. Wednesday February 5, 2014|

| 8:30 am -  9:00 am | Welcome and introductions | Corinna |

| 9:00 am -  9:20 am | Project overview | Corinna, Scott, Matt |

| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | Intro to community metrics| Scott|

|10:00 am - 10:30 am |_.Coffee Break| |

|10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Intro to workflows and Kepler | Matt |

|12:00 pm -  1:00 pm |_. Lunch | on your own |

| 1:00 pm -  3:00 pm | Around the room ideas for metrics and datasets | |

| 3:00 pm -  3:30 pm |_.Afternoon Break | |

| 3:30 pm -  5:30 pm | Working groups | |

|\3=. |

|_\3<.Thursday February 6, 2014|

| 8:30 am - 10:00 am |Hack-a-thon, develop R scripts for metrics | working groups |

|10:00 am - 10:30 am |_.Coffee Break| |

|10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hack-a-thon, develop R scripts for metrics | working groups |

|12:00 pm -  1:00 pm |_. Lunch | on your own |

| 1:00 pm -  2:00 pm | Discussion | plenary |

| 2:00 pm -  3:00 pm | Hack-a-thon build Kepler workflows | working groups |

| 3:00 pm -  3:30 pm |_.Afternoon Break | |

| 3:30 pm -  5:30 pm | Hack-a-thon build Kepler workflows | working groups |

|\3=. |

|_\3<.Friday February 7, 2014|

| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Next steps - metrics | plenary |

|10:00 am - 10:30 am |_.Coffee Break| |

|10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Next steps - requirements for Kepler actors | plenary |

|12:00 pm |_. Adjourn | |

Plenary sessions

* Brainstorm and prioritize community metrics

Breakout groups:

* Community metrics implementation hackathons

* Desiderata for sharing community metrics

* Design for metrics sharing

Outcome

* list of analyses

* list of data sets

* list of data transformation operations to get from raw data to analyses

* list of visualizations