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Sxsw2015 meetup proposal
The document discusses a science and tech meetup at SXSW 2015 focused on bringing more people into science through engaging web technologies and community building. The meetup aims to address challenges in reducing technical difficulties, engaging more people in science, attracting and keeping developers involved in science, and ways for people to get involved without specialized scientific backgrounds. The organizer, Maytal Dahan, works on web and mobile applications to make scientific interfaces, APIs, and services easier to use, sustainable, and scalable.
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Sxsw2015 meetup proposal
- 1. SXSW 2015 Science +Tech Meetup: Scientists & Geeks Unite!
- 2. “The Computer isincredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and an opportunity beyond imagination. “ – Walesh, 1989
- 3. Reduce Technical Difficulties Whyare we here?
- 4. Why are wehere? More Effective & Productive Scientist
- 5. Why are wehere? Bring more people into science
- 7. How can weengage more science? Why aren’t more projects using web technologies? What challenges & technical difficulties exist?
- 8. What successful community building experiencesdo you have? What can we learn from the audience, how can your experience help science? Are their communities we are failing to reach? How do we make more impact?
- 9. You don’t havea PhD in astrophysics to be involved. How do we attract developers? How do we KEEP them in science? How do we get more people involved in science?
- 10. How can youget involved?
- 11. Maytal Dahan Powering DiscoveriesThat Change The World Web & Mobile Applications Group Creating Interfaces, APIs, Services Goal: Easy of Use, sustainability, scalability
Editor's Notes
- #2 Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to Change the World Super Powered Science on the web We appreciate you taking the time to wake up early and make it down here We look forward to having an interesting discussion today Our panel is here talk about how web technologies we use every day can help advance science AND how each and every one of us if the room can help make that a reality What I am going to do today is walk through what our panel is all about, then we will go into open discussion We want to make this an engaging conversation with our audience so please feel free to come up during our open discussion to ask questions, if you are shy please use our hashtag webscience to tweet questions and we will do our best to address them during the panel we have some tshirts, beach towels, coffee mugs, and stickers (octocat and more) for those who ask questions.
- #3 The Computer is incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and an opportunity beyond imagination. computing - simulation, and now data analysis - is FUNDAMENTAL To science, and and therefore to society--everyone in this room benefits every minute of every day from scientific advancements We want scientists to use the kind of technologies that people at interactive are experts in Bridge the gap between scientists the people and the technologies they need to use to help advance science
- #4 So why are we here? Because science is becoming more digital Therefore Scientist are having to deal with a lot of the technical difficulties Efforts such as software carpentry which create bootcamps to geared to scientists to teach them crucial skills like good software engineering practice, database programming, languages such as Python. But on the flip side not every scientists has a desire to have in depth knowledge of programming Solving scientific problems is complex enough without having to deal with the technology challenges US who are experts in this field can help reduce the technical difficulties for scientists by teaching scientist how to develop better tools using web technologies or creating tools that abstracting the technology You don’t need to be an expert on mobile app dev, cloud computing, networking, etc. to use twitter, facebook, instagram, evernote, etc. scientists don’t need to be experts in web technologies to use them for their science We can help scientists focus more on WHAT you are doing and not on HOW you are doing it
- #5 We want to make scientist more effective and productive Projects like Mozilla Science Lab which wants to make science more open, collaborative and efficient by building educational resources and tools FOR the research community Use technology to streamline processes for science It is our responsibility to help scientist become aware of the advantages of web technologies and what is available to them There isn’t a lot of $ in science to build fancy tools but community contributions, sharing code and sharing data, using open science practices benefits developers of these tools and in the end helps scientists
- #6 As Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson said in his brilliant keynote earlier this week - ‘inspiration can be used to make a buck and build an app or to tackle huge challenges that face the world” Each and every one of us are here at SX to learn something new and are interested in asking questions and solving problems, we foster this curiosity by helping science There are so many opportunities to get involved in science Such as citizen science projects which we will touch upon later- GalazyZoo, FoldIt, EyeWire, Great Sunflower Project, crowdsourcing mathematics You in the audience can find scientific projects that interest you and get involved Web technologies can help get everyone involved in science
- #8 These projects are a great example but there is so much more to do….. We are still facing challenges, new frontier for change minds, perceptions, train, educate, outreach What are the barriers that are facing science? How do we educate researchers on what is available to them? How do we make them more aware? Why is sharing code important? Why is sharing data important? How do you open up access to large computing resources? How do we not reinvent the wheel? How can science learn from open source projects where reproducibility and collaboration are the norm? How do we change the credit model? If you could pick an ideal future for science what would it be? How do you handle project sustainability? 1 in 4 think sun revolves around the earth, how do we help fix that?
- #10 Science is in desperate need of diversity How do we attract more developers? How do we use science to help promote STEM?
- #11 Go around the panel Maytal: Come work for us! There is a place for developers in academia participation - citizen science technical challenges - help developing tools advocacy - being interested in how science is affecting the world, advocating for science You can donate your CPU hours passively by installing world community grid, etc. No one was interested in NASA until the mars rover started tweeting and cranky mars rover Using web technologies to promote science help create a story ex. Promote science - Manicure monday for science Science isn’t done in a vacuum, it’s not a hallowed hall of elite “old white men”.
- #12 Our Moto is powering discoveries that change the world TACC offers a diverse set of resources: HPC systems, HTC systems, Visualization resources, Data, Cloud Computing Our group focuses on lower the barrier of entry to using these vast scientific resources WITH web technologies In addition to creating specific interfaces for science domains we are creating platforms that enable scientists to pick the components that they need We Develop, provide and support interfaces and services to simplify access + increase effectiveness of advanced computing We do this by developing APIs, Software as a Service tools and more that can be reused among multiple scientific domains Using the latest web technologies the challenges we look to address: sustainability, scalability, ease of use It is a really exciting area to be in, we get to use our software skills to help create tools to enable scientists to do things they couldn’t have done as effectively or even at all before.