Community Building, Training, Dissemination, Exploitation, and Outreach
WorkPackage Report - Viviane Pons
1st reporting period
## Some background...
OpenDreamKit is built upon many communities of very active users and developers:
- different software
- different research fields
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## Our main goal
Improve and support those existing communities and turn the technical progress we do in OpenDreamKit into
**better science and research**.
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## Our main goal
- **Community building**: Organizing workshops and conferences to reinforce our communities
- **Training**: Widespread our shared technical knowledge especially concerning new OpenDreamKit development
- **Dissemination and outreach**: foster larger communities, get new users and new developers
- **Exploitation**: make effective use of OpenDreamKit development in science and research
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## T2.1: Dissemination and Communication activities
How to communicate about our achievement?
- [press releases](http://opendreamkit.org/events_activities/press_release/)
- [social media](https://twitter.com/opendreamkit)
- [website](http://opendreamkit.org/)
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A new website
![](../site_screenshot.png)
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### 58 Published posts
![](../site_tags.png)
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## T2.4: Reviewing emerging technologies
![](../emerging_technologies.png)
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## T2.2: Training and training portal
![](../software_page.png)
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## T2.6: Introduce OpenDreamKit to Researchers and Teachers
![](../SMC_tutorial.png)
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## T2.3: Community Building: Development Workshops
10 workshops adding up to 211 participants in total
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- Kickoff meeting (Orsay, 34 participants)
- SageDays 70 (Berkeley, 16 participants)
- Atelier PARI/GP 2016 (Grenoble, 36 participants)
- GAP-SageMath Days (St Andrews, 19 participants)
- Knowledge representation (St Andrews, 12 participants)
- SageDays77 (Cernay, 15 participants)
- WP6 workshop (Bremen, 7 participants)
- Atelier PARI/GP 2017 (Lyon, 43 participants)
- SageDays 84 (Olot, 12 participants)
- SageDays 85 (Cernay, 17 participants)
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## Dissemination events
T2.5: Dissemination: reaching towards users and fostering diversity
T2.7: Open source dissemination of micromagnetic VRE
T2.8: Micromagnetic VRE dissemination workshops
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- 6 SageDays on specific math-related topics
- Sage training in developing countries
- 14 talks (SciPy, EuroSciPy, CICM, ICMS,...)
- **4 Micromagnetic VRE dissemination workshops**
- Jupyter Day (Orsay, Nov. 2016)
- **Women In Sage** (Paris, Jan. 2017)
- **Computational Mathematics with Jupyter** (Edinburgh, Jan. 2017)
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## Computational Mathematics with Jupyter
![](../ICMS_Jan2017.jpg)
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- 5-days workshop at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh, January 2017)
- [47 participants from 10 countries](http://opendreamkit.org/meetings/2017-01-16-ICMS/participants/)
- About half of the program consisted of lectures and tutorials
- The other half - collaborative coding and documentation sprints in parallel break-out groups, often suggested by participants
- This format is most efficient for the dissemination, allowing attendees to try out new tools themselves
- Covered many tools from the Python and Jupyter ecosystems and their use in research and teaching
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## Micromagnetic VRE and JOOMMF
### Overview
Integration of Object Oriented Micro Magnetic Framework (OOMMF) into Jupyter
- Python interface to OOMMF (completed)
- multi-media integration (equations, plots, geometries) into Notebook (ongoing)
- dissemination through workshops, preferred at major conferences
- Hosting in the cloud (future)
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### Workshops
- 61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in New Orleans, LA, USA (2nd and 3rd November 2016).
- Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section in Dresden, Germany (19th March 2017)
- Institute of Physics Magnetism 2017 conference in York, UK (5th April 2017)
- IEEE International Magnetics Conference - Intermag 2017, Dublin, Ireland (24th April 2017)
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### Workshop participants (global)
56 participants from 21 countries
![](../joommf-workshops-global.png)
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### Workshop participants (global)
35 participants from 10 countries within Europe
![](../joommf-workshops-EU.png)
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## Women In Sage
January 2017, 19 participants
![](/public/images/womenInSage/group_photo_small.jpg)
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### Goal: reduce the gender-gap
By targeting women, we reach a population that is often left out in classical events.
!["I had never heard of Sage Days": 35.3%, "I thought Sage Days were not for me": 11.8%, "I wanted to but never had the time nor the occasion": 17.6% ,
"I attended once": 17.6%, "I attended many times": 17.6%](/public/images/womenInSage/sage-days-attendance_bigger.png)
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### Bring more women to Sage by helping through this first step
![What are the chances you attend a "normal" sage days in the future? 1:0 people, 2: 0 people, 3: 5 people, 4: 2 people, 5: 10 people](/public/images/womenInSage/future_sage_days.png)
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### Very encouraging results
Contributions on [14 tickets](https://trac.sagemath.org/search?q=days82) during the week,
6 of those which have been merged since the conference.
**8 first contributions to sage source code**
And a high rate of satisfaction.
![How did you like the general atmosphere of the conference? 1:0 people, 2: 0 people, 3: 0 people, 4: 0 people, 5: 17 people](/public/images/womenInSage/atmosphere.png)
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## Summary
- 9 developer workshops
- 16 dissemination events
- 14 talks
## Looking forward to...
- 2 major dissemination events (2018, 2019)
- More developer workshops
- More SageDays
- More training
- More Women In Sage