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title: "Monday Hackday at UWG Summit. Theme: 'earthaccess hackday'"
description: "Please save the date!"
author:
  - name: Openscapes
  - name: NASA Openscapes Mentors
#    url: {}
date: "2026-08-27"
categories: [event, nasa-framework]
image: ESDIS-UWG-Summit-2026.png
---

*Cross-posted at [openscapes.org/events](https://openscapes.org/events), [nasa-openscapes.github.io/news](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news.html), [nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog](https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog)*

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# Please save the date!

Thursday, August 20th, the last day of the NASA UWG Summit, we'll host a
hackday from 10am - 3:30pm Eastern time (with a lunch break). We hope you can
make it!


"Hackday" to our [NASA Openscapes](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/) and
[earthaccess](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) communities means
we will be collaboratively problem-solving and strategizing, and translating
ideas into action. This includes decisions, code, and documentation.
**Purpose:** To gather anyone who's attending the UWG Summit or from on-site at
Goddard, and hack on "making things easier for scientists" from policy, social
and technical perspectives. This in-person hackday is about how we’re
supporting scientists with infrastructure. A lot of hacking is not hands-on
coding. It’s hacking on decisions. It’s seeing how each other works. Asking
each other questions about interoperability. It’s **surfacing friction - which
friction lies in the tech and which lies in the social?** We know
[earthaccess](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) has transformed
the way people access NASA Earthdata. We want to welcome new users and
contributors to earthaccess and the open science ecosystem.

**At the hackday itself**, we’ll kick things off with a friendly showcase to
orient people:

- How to use [earthaccess](https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) with NASA data (Amy Steiker)
- Considerations for contributing to open source projects (Julie Lowndes)
- More to come!