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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)*
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# 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!
+
+
+