Checklist for the October 2024 LSST DESC Sprint Week @ SLAC

Here are a few useful things you can do to prepare yourself for the Sprint Week!

Access meeting resources

Check out and bookmark the Sprint Week confluence page (on all the devices that you plan to use). Make sure you remember your Confluence password.
Check out the Meeting Agenda page. You can subscribe to the calendar linked there to keep up to date on all the events for the week.
Check out the logistics page for details on e.g., participation modes, remote and in-person logistics as well as computing resources, Slack channels, and Zoom access.
Remind yourself of our Code of Conduct which applies to all participants.

Prepare for engaging during the meeting

Ensure that your Zoom and Slack apps are up-to-date.
Add your pronouns to any apps in use, e.g., as <First-Name> <Last-Name> (<pronoun>). Wondering why is this important? See here.
  • For Zoom, you can just add your pronouns to your name. Note that you can rename yourself by clicking on the three dots in your square and clicking "Rename". Or you can use Zoom's built-in personal pronoun feature. (Note: this option may not be available on some of the institutional accounts.)

  • In LSSTC Slack workspace, you can add your pronouns to your profile by 1) clicking on your name, 2) clicking the "Edit Profile" button, and 3) filling out/updating the "Pronouns" entry.
Consider setting your Slack status as active if you are available for synchronous activities. During the Sprint Day, you may set your status as :hacking: to advertise your availability for sprinting.
Please join the following Slack channels:

Computing resources, datasets , code etc.

GitHub

Make sure you have write-access to any and all of the GitHub repositories under the LSSTDESC organization to which you plan on contributing. By default, all repositories under the LSSTDESC organization are read-only for all the members.
  • If you think there's a possibility of you working on a repo you have not worked on before, ask for write access.
  • If you are unsure whether you have write access to a repo, ask again anyway.
  • If you are unsure who/where to ask for write access, ask on #desc-github-help on LSSTC Slack workspace.

NERSC

If you plan to join an analysis project during the meeting, make sure you have a NERSC account and remember your password (nope, a SSH key is not enough) and have 2-step verification (MFA) set up! Also, make sure you are in the NERSC "lsst" group. (Once logged into NERSC, run the "groups" command in a shell window.) If not, please follow the instructions in this page under the heading: "What to do if you already have a NERSC account and need access to the DESC repo".
Follow the instructions to install DESC jupyter kernels. You will need them to access e.g., DC2 data products or to use DESC software during the Meeting.

DC2

If you have not used any DC2 data tutorial notebooks before, check out the instructions on this step-by-step guide. Also, bookmark the DC2 Data Product Overview page and the DC2-analysis GitHub repo for easy access. Questions? Ask them in the #desc-dc2-users Slack channel.

Social media

If you use social media professionally, please use the #lsstdesc hashtag when reporting highlights from the meeting! Remember the Code of Conduct!

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