Live Coworking Opportunities

Coworking is one of the most actionable, immediate things groups can do to support each other and build new skills and workflows. Here are some opportunities to work and learn alongside NOAA Fisheries colleagues and others in the Openscapes community.

Public

  • HackHours 2026 schedule & lessons. Fridays 11-12 PT / 2-3 ET.
    • During these stand-alone informal sessions we will get introduced to a variety of tools for ocean data access and analysis in Python and R. We will be using the NOAA Fisheries Openscapes JupyterHub and you will not need to install anything.

NOAA specific

  • NMFS Open Science Help Desk Office Hours, Wednesdays 9:30-4:00 PT.

    • Jon Peake will be available virtually to assist with any questions or issues related to R, Quarto, GitHub, or any other Open Science/Open Data topics. We will be booking individuals in half-hour time slots; to sign up. Grab a time slot!

  • NMFS Open Science Trainings.

  • In 2025, with NMFS Openscapes Champions Cohorts we shared two slide decks with ways to connect via Google Spaces and Live Meetings:

    • Learn and connect to community at NOAA Fisheries (slides from Kathryn Doering).

    • Open Communities (slides from Openscapes).

  • Group Coworking, 1.5 hours weekly on Tuesdays, with NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors. Contact stefanie@openscapes.org to join.

    • Ideas, projects, resources, and troubleshooting notes are shared in the MentorActivities GitHub Project.

  • 1:1 coworking with Stefanie Butland, Openscapes team member. Book a 2- or 1-hour time slot.

    • We start with each of us saying what we’re working on, and how we’d like to break up our time together into work blocks and checkins. The breaks are where the synergy comes. At the end of each work block, we briefly report back on what we’ve accomplished, help each other get unstuck, ask for advice on how to approach a task, or say “omigosh that is fantastic!”.

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