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

POSE：第二阶段：为Tethys平台建立开源生态系统

• 批准号: 2303756
• 负责人: Nathan Swain
• 金额: $ 143.6万
• 依托单位: AQUAVEO, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POSE; Phase; II; Establishing; Open

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.

Tethys平台是一个网络框架，可促进开发，部署和托管通信工具，以帮助科学家，工程师，决策者，急救人员，公众以有意义的方式与科学数据互动。 Tethys平台OSE的愿景是使科学家能够更好地传达最新的科学，从而在面对自然灾害的情况下更加明智的反应，更好地维持我们的环境的政策，更好地管理地球资源，并提高了公众素养，对自然环境中的复杂过程和相互作用的理解。全球的种子已经被依靠使用Tethys平台的全球各种组织播种。这些组织使用Tethys平台开发的许多工具都充当了全球水平者，从总理组织提供了对这种科学研究和数据死亡的国家的其他组织的访问。这些工具创建的通信渠道通常会导致参与组织之间的随后合作。这些合作的影响的一个例子是，在尼泊尔东非东部地区的区域映射中心（RCMRD）和国际综合山地开发中心（ICIMOD）之间的知识转移，导致马拉维在马拉维的洪水预警系统的发展中开发了围绕Tethys平台开发的工具，并促进了造成的洪水范围的造成的洪水，从而使洪水造成了洪水的影响。通过培养和发展Tethys平台社区，培养包容性，潜水员的社区，并提供学习和不断增长的STEM的机会来最大化这种结果。该姿势项目将在STEM中进行学习和不断增长的机会。该工作将组织为四个高级活动：组成一个管理组织，建立用户社区，建立贡献者，建立贡献者基础，并改善Tethys平台。第一个活动将涉及建立一个非营利性管理组织，用于Tethys Platform OSE，代号Tethys软件基金会（TSF）。 TSF的使命是通过使用和发展Tethys平台来更好地促进地球科学的沟通，促进对Tethys平台代码库的贡献，维持知识产权的管理和Tethys平台的管理，并代表社区的Tethys平台的商标，并发展了Tethys App Devellers of Tethys App Developers and Wears的工作。第二项活动将集中于发展用户社区，并将其扩展到将科学家包括在更多地球科学学科中。这将通过许多发现和促销活动来完成，包括建立领域工作组，以确定每个学科的发展和其他需求，在会议上促进Tethys平台，改善教育课程以及举行定期的Tethys用户会议。第三个活动将涉及成长贡献者基础。这项活动将鼓励更多的Tethys应用程序开发人员以付费方式成为平台的贡献者，并通过对潜在的贡献者进行正式入职过程，开发贡献者培训资源。第四项活动将着重于改善Tethys平台分布的质量控制，安全性和隐私方面。将要执行的特定任务的示例包括扩展测试代码覆盖范围和确保在所有主要平台上执行测试；实施对存储库，依赖项和工件的安全扫描；解决数据隐私问题；并建立正式的机制，以信誉外部的智力内容和数据贡献者。Website：http：//www.tethysplatform.org/source代码：https：//github.com/tethysplatform/tethysplatform/tethysdocumentation：使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。