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

Tethys平台是一个网络框架，它促进了通信工具的开发、部署和托管，帮助科学家、工程师、决策者、急救人员和公众以有意义的方式参与科学数据。特提斯OSE平台的愿景是使科学家能够更好地交流最新的科学成果，从而在面对自然灾害时做出更明智的反应，制定更好的环境保护政策，更好地管理地球资源，提高公众对自然环境中复杂过程和相互作用的认识和理解。世界各地依赖Tethys平台的各种组织已经播下了全球OSE的种子。这些组织使用Tethys平台开发的许多工具正在发挥全球均衡器的作用，为缺乏此类科学研究和数据的国家的其他组织提供从主要组织获取科学和数据的途径。由这些工具创建的沟通渠道经常导致参与组织之间的后续合作。这些合作产生的影响的一个例子是东非资源促进发展区域中心（RCMRD）与尼泊尔国际山地综合发展中心（ICIMOD）之间的知识转移，这导致了马拉维洪水预警系统的发展，该系统是围绕特提斯平台开发的工具形成的，并帮助最大限度地减少了2022年初飓风Ana造成的洪水的影响。该项目旨在通过培养和发展Tethys平台社区，培养一个包容、多元化的OSE社区，并提供STEM学习和成长机会，最大限度地提高这种效果。POSE项目将开展的工作分为四个高级活动：组建管理组织、建立用户社区、建立贡献者基础和改进Tethys平台分发。第一项活动将涉及为Tethys平台OSE建立一个非营利性管理组织，代号为Tethys软件基金会（TSF）。TSF的使命是通过使用和推进Tethys平台来促进更好的地球科学交流，促进对Tethys平台代码库的贡献，代表社区维护Tethys平台的知识产权和商标管理，并发展已经多样化的Tethys应用程序开发人员国际社区并庆祝他们的工作。第二项活动将侧重于发展用户社区，并将其扩展到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来确定每个学科的发展和其他特定需求，在会议上推广Tethys平台，改进教育课程，并定期举行Tethys用户会议。第三项活动将涉及增加贡献者基础。这项活动将鼓励更多的Tethys应用开发者以“付费向前”的方式成为平台的贡献者，并为潜在的贡献者提供正式的入职流程，开发贡献者培训资源。第四项活动将侧重于改进Tethys平台分发的质量控制、安全和隐私方面。将承担的具体任务示例包括扩展测试代码覆盖率，并确保在所有主要平台上执行测试；实现对存储库、依赖项和构件的安全扫描；处理资料私隐问题；建立正式的机制，对外部知识内容和数据贡献者给予信任。网站：http://www.tethysplatform.org/Source代码：https://github.com/tethysplatform/tethysDocumentation: http://docs.tethysplatform.org/en/stable/This该奖项反映了美国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，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.