[ORNL DAAC User Working Group UWG Openscapes Notebooks]: 2026-06-16

[michele-ornl]

Workshop Description

The ORNL DAAC will be hosting their annual User Working Group meeting held in person at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This workshop will provide a brieif hands-on experience for ORNL DAAC's UWG members who are comprised mostly of NASA Funded Researches from various institutions and career stages to walk through programmatic discovery, access, and analysis of datasets published to NASA Earthdata through the ORNL DAAC. An emphasis will be on airborne and field datasets (suborbital) in the terrestrial ecology/biodiversity domains.

Workshop Start Date

2026-06-16

Workshop End Date

2026-06-16

Workshop Start Time

1:00 pm ET

Workshop End Time

5:00 pm ET

Workshop URL

https://workshop.openscapes.2i2c.cloud

Reset Date

No response

Estimated Number of Participants

25

Compute Requirements

There is a resource around 14Gb that will be great.

Image Requirements

the openscapes image, please

Storage Requirements

No special needs

Checklist for workshop organizer (person planning/leading the workshop) and hub point-of-contact (PoC; Openscapes team member helping with hub setup and logistics. Usually @ateucher).

• Hub PoC: Send confirmation to organizer that the request is received and the hub is available for the workshop (a comment in this issue thread is fine).

• Organizer: Add your event in the workshop spreadsheet. Please check if there are any other workshops scheduled around the same time and if so, let the hub PoC know to make sure the hub can support multiple workshops at the same time.

• Organizer: Submit a ticket by email to 2i2c for the workshop and request a new password for the workshop, as per instructions, cc'ing hub PoC (@ateucher; andy [at] openscapes [dot] org). You will receive confirmation of the new password for the workshop from 2i2c once it is reset.

• Hub PoC: Confirm [Event] or [Support] issue opened in 2i2c-org/infrastructure in response to ticket (example)

• Hub PoC: Add new password and dates to workshop password spreadsheet.

• Organizer: Two weeks before event. I have tested the default hub images on the workshop hub or conferred with hub PoC on plan for a workshop specific image.

• Organizer: In the week before the event (or when hub PoC indicates password should be live). I tested that the workshop password works and images work.

• Organizer: After the event, open an issue in the Workshop Planning repo to report back.

• Hub PoC: After event, put in a 2i2c ticket to reset password.

• Hub PoC: After event, log in to the hub as admin, enumerate the participant directories and update the workshop spreadsheet with the actual number of participants.

• Hub PoC: After event, delete the participant directories.

• Hub PoC: Close the issue. If the workshop was completed, close as "completed". If the workshop was cancelled before being held, close as "Not Planned" and note in the comments that it was cancelled.

[ateucher]

Thanks @michele-ornl and @rupesh2!

Can you please email 2i2c requesting the hub with a password of your choosing, and please cc me? Instructions and email template here: https://openscapes.cloud/password-access.html

Also, can you please confirm dates/times? This issue says June 16 1-5pm EST, the spreadsheet says June 17 2-5

[ateucher]

2i2c support ticket opened: 2i2c-org/infrastructure#8493

[michele-ornl]

Hi @ateucher
I earlier (6/5) provided the following to 2i2c in an email found in the hub directions.

The ORNL DAAC and Openscapes have an upcoming event where we are planning to use the Openscapes Hub. Here’s the main information:

• The GitHub handle or name of the community representative: Michele Thornton; thorntonmm@ornl.gov
• The date when the event will start: June 16, 2026
• The date when the event will end: June 16, 2026
• What hours of the day will participants be active? 2:00pm - 5pm ET (Greenbelt, MD)
• Number of attendees: ~20
• Resources per user: 14.8GB RAM / up to 3.7 CPU
• The URL of the hub that will be used for the event: [https://workshop.openscapes.2i2c.cloud/] (NASA)
• Access method: shared password

[ateucher]

Thanks @michele-ornl!

[ateucher]

@michele-ornl would you be able to give a little summary of how the workshop went, including how many people attended (an estimate is fine)?