[hpc-announce] 2020 Gateway Focus Week applications are now open

[Sandra Gesing]

The Science Gateways Community Institute
(https://sciencegateways.org/) offers two Focus Weeks per year.
Gateway Focus Week helps software and website projects get to the next
level.

The 2020 sessions are:

* June 1-5, Columbia University, New York, NY (apply by March 27)
* Nov. 30-Dec. 4, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA (apply
by Sept. 25)

GATEWAY FOCUS WEEK is a five-day intensive workshop that has been
carefully designed to benefit teams who want to ensure the
sustainability of their gateway projects. Apply now!
https://sciencegateways.org/focus-week

During Focus Week, teams engage in hands-on activities that help them
articulate the value of their work to key stakeholders. Participating
teams produce a strong development, operations, and sustainability
plan with a corresponding pitch deck that includes actionable goals.
By working closely across teams, participants have the opportunity to
learn from each other’s experiences and challenges. Focus Week
attendees leave with a flexible toolkit that can be used as their
projects continue to mature.

Focus Week is subsidized by the National Science Foundation. This
allows you to attend what would otherwise be a $2,500 per team event
at no cost other than travel, hotel, and a few meals. Most lunches and
dinners are provided as part of the networking and cohort building
activities.

WHAT'S A GATEWAY?
Science gateways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_gateway),
which are also commonly referred to as virtual labs, portals, virtual
research environments, citizen science projects, eScience, etc., allow
research communities to:

Access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, and
other resources
Collaborate with their community around a research topic or discipline
Provide training and education materials to a community


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Sandra Gesing
Associate Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing
University of Notre Dame
http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing
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