Open Office Hours - June 3

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, June 3 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
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June's Topic Aperitif: LIGO EffortManager

This month we will hear about the custom plugin, EffortManager, that was developed and is used by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). EffortManager is used to enter the number of research effort hours spent by investigators. This information is tracked per individual (via a co_person role in COmanage) and is used to determine authorship privileges within the LIGO collaboration. The EffortManager plugin uses techniques that would be of interest to many plugin types: it is integrated with the menus, has context-sensitive rendering, and is called from enrollment flows. Come hear about this great project from Mike Manske, Associate Scientist at UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). After this 15 min chat, we’ll continue with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

How to File a Bug Report

This section is an excerpt from our Help & Support wiki page. Please refer to the page for more detailed instructions.

Bugs happen, and we want to know when they do! Given the large number of use cases that are addressed by COmanage, it is quite difficult to test for every prospective bug that could exist in the code. As a result, day-to-day users of COmanage may discover features that are not behaving as they should. What should you do in these situations? We’re glad you asked!

CHECK. When you first recognize a problem, a great starting point is to check the list of reported issues in the COmanage Issue Tracker to see if someone else has already reported the issue.

REPORT. If the issue you have discovered has not been reported, you can make a new one by signing into the Issue Tracker and creating a new detailed issue.

STAY INVOLVED. If you are able, consider submitting a patch to address the issue that you found. Or minimally you can “watch” the issue that you submitted so that you receive notifications when it is updated.

We look forward to your bug reports!

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

Training in June!

There is still time to sign up for training. A COmanage Registry training workshop has been added to the calendar for June 28-30. Learn the basics of administering Registry including connections to Source data, enrolling your population, passing information from Registry to your other systems, and lifecycle management. Register now. (The next training workshop will be offered in October 2022)

CHANGE: New Day for the Next Open Office Hours

Mark your calendar. After this week, the next Open Office Hours will be on Thursday, June 30 at 2:00 Eastern (NYC) instead of that week’s Friday. This change is so that the office hours are coordinated with the next training session so that this new cohort can join us. Come and welcome them to the user community!

Moment of Zen: The Solstice is Coming!

Travel and weather have been topics of conversation during our conference calls lately. For this month’s “moment of zen” we’re sharing some fun facts about the upcoming solstice. (An excerpt from Mental Floss.)

• The name comes from the fact that the Sun appears to stand still. The term solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (Sun) and sistere (to stand still), because the Sun's relative position in the sky at noon does not appear to change much during the solstice and its surrounding days. The rest of the year, the Earth's tilt on its axis—roughly 23.5 degrees—causes the Sun's path in the sky to rise and fall from one day to the next.
• One of the world's biggest bonfires was part of a summer solstice celebration. Cultures around the world have held celebrations in conjunction with the solstice for hundreds of years. Among these is Midsummer, which is celebrated on June 24 in Scandinavia and other northern European countries. In 2016, the people of Ålesund, Norway, set a world record for the tallest bonfire with their 155.5-foot celebratory blaze (their record was broken in 2019 by Austrian Carnival festivities).
• Thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. People have long believed Stonehenge was the site of ancient druid solstice celebrations because of the way the Sun lines up with the stones on the winter and summer solstices. While there's no proven connection between Celtic solstice celebrations and the megalithic monument, these days, thousands of modern pagans gather at the landmark to watch the sunrise on the solstice.
• The ancient Chinese honored the yin on the summer solstice. In ancient China, the summer solstice was the yin to the winter solstice's yang—literally. Throughout the year, the Chinese believed, the powers of yin and yang waxed and waned in reverse proportion to each other. At the summer solstice, the influence of yang was at its height, but the celebration centered on the impending switch to yin. At the winter solstice, the opposite switch was honored.
• The summer solstice marks a dark time in science history. Legend has it that it was on the summer solstice in 1633 that Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his declaration that the Earth revolves around the Sun; even with doing so, he still spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. Keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late June. We hope to see you during our Open Office Hours on June 3rd!