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Possible Blog Article #1074

Closed oamarques closed 2 years ago

oamarques commented 2 years ago

This is a draft related to https://github.com/betterscientificsoftware/bssw-blog-planning/issues/104, which I realize is overdue. Hopefully, this will be in a good shape by October 1. I acknowledge it is still rough and short but I would like to know if it is in the right direction before expanding it.

With the October 13 event we celebrate the 50th webinar in the HPC Best Practices series (HPC-BP), with funds from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP). In the ECP era, the series started on June 6, 2017, with a webinar on Python in HPC. In the 4+ years that followed, we have offered webinars on a variety of topics, always working with speakers to take into account a broad audience, the inclusion of pointers to both basic information and supplementary/advanced information and, also important, "big-picture takeaways."

The first webinars in the series were offered in a somewhat ad hoc fashion, without much attention to action items or a specific timeline other than the webinar itself. However, we quickly realized that we needed a process, encompassing the selection of (potential) topics and speakers, advertisement, etc. We started with a checklist of 8 items, which then evolved to a checklist of 20+ items in a Trello board. The process has evolved further, into a (private) github project, in which potential topics became issues. Once a topic has been selected and a speaker has been confirmed, the issue is elevated and the checklist is incorporated in it.

On average, 166 people have signed up for a webinar (including 48 affiliated with ECP) in the series, with an actual attendance of about 50%.

pagrubel commented 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be better to focus on/and perhaps highlight some of the webinars more than the evolution of procedures for a blog article?

bernhold commented 2 years ago

Osni and I are working in a Google doc. We have a new draft that I think is more in line with your suggestion. Though we have a bit of work to do yet. Maybe we'll ask you to review soon.

bernhold commented 2 years ago

This has been overtaken by events. Blog article is here: https://bssw.io/blog_posts/best-practices-for-hpc-software-developers-the-first-five-years-of-the-webinar-series