Pytroll Online Contributor Week, Autumn 2024

[Raspaud Martin]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the next Pytroll Online Contributor Week (PCW), which
will take place from Monday 18th of November to Friday 22nd of November
2024. The meeting will be held virtually at
https://meet.jit.si/PytrollCommunityMeeting. Participation is free of charge.

The PCW is for everyone who wants to learn and/or work with Pytroll
modules. The event is tailored for people who are already familiar with
Pytroll modules and want to learn more or contribute code or
documentation. The interaction with the core developers makes it quicker
to form a plan on how to solve an issue or add a new feature.

Over the years many users participated to learn about Pytroll, through
installing modules from scratch and running through tutorials (for
example, https://github.com/pytroll/tutorial-satpy-half-day). The
in-person interaction with the core developers in the past made it easy
to ask quick questions to clarify some points that may not be obvious
when running the tutorial.

Due to the virtual nature of the event, the interactions in this PCW
will be different from in-person events. For those of you who are
interested in learning to use Pytroll modules, we encourage you to use
also our chatrooms on slack to ask questions (a specific #learning
channel is available) during the event. We can organize a dedicated Q&A
session if needed.

In order to give every participant the right permissions for the
different tools we will be using, please register your attendance by 11th
of November by entering your details into this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dBLpg3hVoa02HoNPa9WNHfq36JEslVZDYPXB2yDvm-o/edit?usp=sharing

If you intend to work with improving Pytroll modules, please register
issues, pull requests or notes on the issue board set up for the event
at https://github.com/orgs/pytroll/projects/21/views/1

This way we can follow the progress of everyone and form teams of
related interests.

Please tell us if you can't access the board so that we can fix the
permissions for you.

Since we won't be physically in the same place, we will have many time
zones to cover. We will gather in video-meetings in jitsi at regular intervals for short status updates. The
times for these meetings will be:

01:00, 05:00, 08:00, 12:00, 15:00, 19:00, and 22:00 UTC

Of course, we expect participants to only join those meetings that suit
their work schedule and timezone. The opening meetings will take place
on Monday 18th of December at 08:00 UTC (Europe and Asia/Oceania) and
16:00 UTC (Europe and Americas).

In-between status meetings, further meetings can be held as needed on
the virtual platform at jitsi. Additional communication can be
held on the Pytroll slack.

We are excited to meet many of you at the online PCW between 18 and 22 November. Please do not hesitate to share this announcement with anyone who you think might be interested.

Best regards,
Martin Raspaud (SMHI) on behalf of the PCW organizers