POSE: Phase II: Establishing an Open-Source Ecosystem for Tethys Platform

特提斯平台是一个网络框架，可促进通信工具的开发、部署和托管，帮助科学家、工程师、决策者、急救人员和普通公众以有意义的方式接触科学数据。特提斯OSE平台的愿景是使科学家能够更好地交流最新科学，从而实现诸如在面对自然灾害时更明智地应对、更好地制定维持我们的环境的政策、更好地管理地球资源、提高公众素养和对自然环境中正在发挥作用的复杂过程和相互作用的理解等成果。世界各地依赖特提斯平台的各种组织已经播下了全球OSE的种子。这些组织利用特提斯平台开发的许多工具发挥着全球均衡器的作用，为缺乏科学研究和数据的国家的其他组织提供从主要组织获得科学和数据的机会。这些工具建立的沟通渠道往往会导致参与组织之间的后续协作。这些协作的影响的一个例子是东非资源测绘促进发展区域中心(RCMRD)和尼泊尔国际山区综合开发中心(ICIMOD)之间的知识转让，这导致马拉维开发了一个洪水预警系统，该系统是根据特提斯平台开发的工具形成的，有助于最大限度地减少2022年初因飓风Ana而发生的洪水的影响。该项目旨在通过培育和发展特提斯平台社区，培育一个包容的、多样化的OSE社区，并在STEM中提供学习和成长的机会，来最大化这种类型的结果。该POST项目将进行的工作被组织成四个高层次的活动：形成管理组织，建立用户社区，建立贡献者基础，以及改善特提斯平台分销。第一项活动将涉及为特提斯平台OSE建立一个非营利性管理组织，代号为特提斯软件基金会(TSF)。TSF的使命将是通过使用和发展特提斯平台来促进地球科学的更好交流，促进对特提斯平台代码库的贡献，代表社区维护特提斯平台的知识产权和商标的管理，并发展已经多样化的特提斯应用程序开发人员国际社区并赞扬他们的工作。第二项活动将侧重于扩大用户群体，使其包括更多地球科学学科的科学家。这将通过一系列发现和推广活动来实现，包括建立领域工作组以确定每个学科的发展和其他具体需求、在会议上宣传特提斯平台、改进教育课程以及定期举行特提斯用户会议。第三项活动将涉及扩大贡献者基础。这项活动将鼓励更多的特提斯应用程序开发者以Pay-It-Forward的方式成为平台的贡献者，并开发贡献者培训资源，为潜在贡献者提供正式的入职流程。第四项活动将集中于改进特提斯平台分发的质量控制、安全和隐私方面。将承担的具体任务的示例包括扩大测试代码覆盖率并确保在所有主要平台上执行测试；实施存储库、依赖项和构件的安全扫描；解决数据隐私问题；以及建立正式机制来向外部知识内容和数据贡献者提供信用。网站：http://www.tethysplatform.org/Source代码：https://github.com/tethysplatform/tethysDocumentation：http://docs.tethysplatform.org/en/stable/This奖反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Tethys Platform is a web framework that facilitates the development, deployment, and hosting of communication tools that help scientists, engineers, decision makers, first responders, and the general public engage with scientific data in a meaningful way. The vision of a Tethys Platform OSE is to enable scientists to better communicate the latest science and thereby enable outcomes like more informed response in the face of a natural disaster, better policies for sustaining our environment, better management of Earth’s resources, and increased public literacy and understanding of the complex processes and interactions at play in the natural environment. Already, the seeds for a global OSE have been sown by various organizations around the world that rely on the use of Tethys Platform. Many of the tools developed by these organizations using Tethys Platform are acting as a global leveler, providing access to science and data from premier organizations to other organizations in countries where there is a dearth of such scientific research and data. The communication channel created by these tools often leads to subsequent collaborations between the participating organizations. An example of the impact of these collaborations is the resulting knowledge transfer between the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Eastern Africa and The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal, which led to the development of a flood early warning system in Malawi that was formed around tools developed with Tethys Platform and helped to minimize the impact of flooding that occurred due to Cyclone Ana in early 2022. This project seeks to maximize this type of results by cultivating and growing the Tethys Platform community, fostering an inclusive, diverse OSE community, and providing learning and growth opportunities in STEM.The work that will be carried out in this POSE project is organized into four high level activities: Form a Managing Organization, Build the User Community, Build the Contributor Base, and Improve the Tethys Platform Distribution. The first activity will involve establishing a non-profit managing organization for the Tethys Platform OSE, codenamed Tethys Software Foundation (TSF). The mission of the TSF will be to promote better communication of the geosciences through the use and advancement of Tethys Platform, facilitate contribution to the Tethys Platform codebase, maintain stewardship of the intellectual property and trademarks of Tethys Platform on behalf of the community, and grow the already diverse international community of Tethys app developers and celebrate their work. The second activity will be focused on growing the user community and expanding it to include scientists in more geoscience disciplines. This will be done through a number of discovery and promotion activities including establishing domain working groups to identify development and other needs specific to each discipline, promoting Tethys Platform at conferences, improving educational curriculum, and holding regular Tethys user conferences. The third activity will involve growing the contributor base. This activity will encourage more Tethys app developers to become contributors to the platform in a pay-it-forward fashion and develop contributor training resources with a formal onboarding process for would-be contributors. The fourth activity will focus on improving quality control, security, and privacy aspects of the Tethys Platform distribution. Examples of specific tasks that will be undertaken include expanding test code coverage and ensuring testing is performed on all major platforms; implementing security scanning of the repository, dependencies, and artifacts; addressing data privacy issues; and establishing formal mechanisms for giving credit to the external intellectual content and data contributors.Website: http://www.tethysplatform.org/Source Code: https://github.com/tethysplatform/tethysDocumentation: http://docs.tethysplatform.org/en/stable/This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.