espsrc / droplets

Open Science Droplets - Reproducible and Collaborative Research Resources for Astronomy

Open Science Droplets

Quick links

• Open Science Droplets Webpage
• Live sessions at the IAA

This initiative compiles a series of tutorials describing tools and good practices to make your research analysis more organized, automatic and reproducible with an astrophysical science case as a guiding thread.

The aim of platform is that we all share those tools that we can use in our daily work to make their research more flexible, efficient, collaborative and open. Discussions can happen in the droplets Github page or in person in the regular sessions organized at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), a Severo Ochoa Center.

We are collaboratively constructing documentation with details and examples on how to use these tools: Documentation.

Purpose

• Make our research more flexible, efficient, collaborative and open
• Build a community to share know-how
• Discover and share tools and practices
• Promote Open and Reproducible Science

Sessions at the IAA-CSIC

We will organize demonstration sessions to showcase how these tools can be incorporated into astronomical research. In each session we will show a real-life example on how to use one tool, without entering in the technical details of how it works. We follow the principle of "show, don't tell" to present a tasting of tools that you may want to consider using. The sessions are complemented with the documentation we are building with details on how to install and use these tools (Documentation).

Regular meetings will happen every two Mondays at 10:30 am in the room adjacent to the kitchen. We will be happy to stay afterwards for extended discussions and networking. We will get the ball rolling with Jupyter notebooks and will continue with other tools like git, conda, containers, pipelines and Zenodo. However, everybody is welcome to suggest or present a tool that they consider interesting as well. There are no technical requirements for the sessions, you just will need your coffee, not your laptop.

Logistics

• Open for everyone to participate!
• Regular meetings twice a month
• You bring your coffee, we bring cookies
• Demonstration sessions to showcase tools
• Open for questions, discussions and networking

What to expect

• Show, don't tell
• Details will be provided in the Documentation
• Informal presentations
• Training plan will evolve depending on feedback

Collaborate

Feel free to open and issue with any comment or suggestion, or to send a pull request if you would like to contribute.

droplets's Issues

Github workflow to contribute to existing repository

We need to add a subsection on how to contribute to repositories (fork-clone-push upstream). I like how the workflow is explained here, so we could follow the same approach:

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/Dev%3A-Github-Workflow

Not everything is needed, but I want to include for example:

• The section Developers
• The workflow in Rebasing

There are other similar resources, but this is one option.

upload slides for session-3 to the repo

@manuparra even if it is not a lot of content, I suggest you upload the starting slides for session 3 you prepared in this directory: https://github.com/spsrc/droplets/tree/master/sessions/droplets-03-github

remove environment

In quickstart.md the last line:
conda remove -n droplets
is wrong, it tries to remove python module "droplets". To remove the environment properly use:
conda env remove -n droplets

make environment.yml software versions explicit

When creating the conda environment from environment.yml it takes a long time "solving environment". I think we can make it faster by setting explicit version numbers (at least main and secondary version)