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Website for standards and governance of the Open Modeling Foundation
https://openmodelingfoundation.org
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improve OMF about page #56

Open danielskatz opened 4 years ago

danielskatz commented 4 years ago

the about page (https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/about/) says:

"The Open Modeling Foundation is a meta organization"

This is not particularly helpful. I was hoping to find out what modeling means to OMF, what kinds of models are in-scope vs out-of-scope, how OMF is organized (which could be a pointer to the governance page), what organizations or people are part of it, how one joins (also hiding in governance).

cmbarton commented 4 years ago

Dan. We've focused on getting the mechanics of this platform up and running for the workshop, since we had to transition to online. So we don't have much text in it for general info. However, if you take a look at the draft charter in the governance section, it will give you a lot more info.

cmbarton commented 4 years ago

If I have some time this week. I want to begin to populate some of the pages with at least skeletal text.

alee commented 4 years ago

I can push the text from https://openmodelingfoundation.org/mission-and-charter/ over there, thanks for catching that Dan! We're still in the process of migrating content into the site and as @cmbarton mentioned we were mostly working towards establishing a workable and documented process for contribution during next week's workshop.

alee commented 4 years ago

this should be mostly addressed now with the mission and charter verbiage, feel free to reopen if insufficient. We should add links to the various standards from this page but that can be done later

danielskatz commented 4 years ago

Thanks for doing this. Can I request that you also define models? Is a model a set of equations? A spreadsheet? A function? A library? An executable? Are models time-stepping? Do they have standard methods (e.g., start, run, stop)? etc...

cmbarton commented 4 years ago

This would be a good thing to do at some point. Right now, we have more pressing issues for this site. But it is good that it is in an issue to track for the future.

As a consortium of modeling organizations, what a model means will ultimately be something for that community to articulate. Currently, most organizations participating are focused on computational models broadly (e.g, not narrative models or statistical models). We have created this GitHub site primarily as a collaboration platform for participants in a series of planning and information sharing workshops to work with and ultimately for the OMF membership. We indeed hope it to be part of a more broadly inclusive web presence with information about the OMF as it develops, resources for model developers and users, educational materials, etc.

But since the pandemic has forced us to move all aspects of our planned workshops online, we have accelerated the collaboration platform function of this site for now. Also, keep in mind that the OMF is not an established organization just getting around to putting up a web site. It is an in process initiative.

To that end, as a member of the modeling science community, we also welcome your thoughts about models. It would be good to put them into a new comment if you feel so inclined. Thanks again for your thoughts on the GitHub site. Feel free to offer any other insights.