Get in touch : access to IOOS Code Sprint ?

[pp-mo]

Hi @MathewBiddle
Just sent you an email about getting access to the IOOS code sprint, but got an out-of-office reply !

So copied here ...

Hi Matthew

Can you help me connect to the ongoing IOOS code sprint on Zoom/Slack ?
I was encouraged by Filipe Fernandez (https://github.com/ocefpaf) to get involved (for reasons below).
But unfortunately I’ve been a bit out of it, since I missed getting connected to the group before this.

I work in the Uk MetOffice, in a software group providing Python tooling for scientific use (production and research)
– so I’m a software engineer not a scientist or modeller,
There were two suggestions for involvement :
(1) As in the following issue : ioos/ioos-code-sprint#6
I have recently developed a general-purpose Python UGRID checker tool, ugrid-checks, and we are considering connecting this to the IOOS compliance-checker

• see Consider integration with ioos checker plugin pp-mo/ugrid-checks#44
  Status : I have some draft code to link the 2, could collaborate with someone to draft a linking package
  (2) (also in the above discussion)
  My group works on Iris, to which we have just added UGRID read/write and internal “data cube” representation.
  We are currently adding Iris regridding based on ESMF,
  and a new package, GeoVista, which bridges geolocated data (e.g. Iris or xarray) to mesh analytics and 3D visualisation in PyVista (and hence VTK).
  So, Filipe thought some of this might be good for a lightning talk ?

AFAICT, our efforts might have relevance in the following areas :
• Python tooling interoperabililty
• File formats, data standardisation and format-agnostic data management
• visualisation, VTK
• large-data analysis, parallel and out-of-core processing (VTK and Dask)

Thanks!
Regards, Patrick

[MathewBiddle]

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