The OGGM community is a collaborative, open-source initiative focused on advancing glacier science and understanding the impacts of climate change on glaciers. We aim to provide researchers, educators, and decision-makers with accessible and comprehensive glacier modeling tools that promote research, learning, and informed decision-making. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, where contributors from diverse backgrounds work together to advance our understanding of glaciers.
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Our mission is to make large scale glacier modeling accessible, transparent, and reliable. By bringing together researchers, developers, and educators, we create a community-driven platform that enables:
- Cutting-edge glacier and climate science.
- Open educational resources to train the next generation of scientists.
- Public awareness of the importance of glaciers in our changing climate.
We are passionate about supporting open science, providing high-quality data, and encouraging innovative uses of our tools. The OGGM community operates with a spirit of openness and collaboration, recognizing that the best scientific progress is made together.
The OGGM community thrives because of the collective effort of many dedicated volunteers. Below, we outline some of the key roles that members of the community take on, ensuring that their contributions are acknowledged.
This is a work in progress!
The purpose of the steering committee is to guide the evolution of OGGM in alignment with its long-term mission and vision, ensuring that the project remains relevant, impactful, and that its online spaces remain safe for everyone.
Steering committee members meet every three months to oversee the governance of OGGM, track ongoing large projects, and ensure activities are conducted in line with the community's mission and values. Ideally, the steering committee members should reflect the community interests: users, developpers, educators, etc. The OGGM steering committee also intervenes in case of internal conflicts or violations of the code of conduct.
- **Current members:** **Applications open!**
- **Past members:** Informal. Ben Marzeion (2015-present), Fabien Maussion (2015-present), Anouk Vlug (2020-present)
The purpose of the core developers role is to build and maintain the technical foundation of the core OGGM codebase located at [github.com/OGGM/oggm](https://github.com/OGGM/oggm), ensuring that the software meets user needs and remains robust and extensible.
Core developers are responsible for managing code contributions, ensuring software quality, guiding new developers and documening technical decisions. Core developpers have the right to push to the core OGGM codebase.
- **Current role holders:** Fabien Maussion (2016-present), Patrick Schmitt (2021-present)
- **Past role holders:** Matthias Dusch (2018-2021)
The purpose of the documentation and tutorials developers role is to make OGGM accessible to a broad audience by creating educational resources and maintaining user documentation and tutorials.
They are responsible for developing and maintaining the [tutorials](http://tutorials.oggm.org) and [user documentation](http://docs.oggm.org) that make OGGM approachable to researchers, students, and educators.
- **Current role holders:** Anouk Vlug (2020-present), Lilian Schuster (2020-present), Beatriz Recinos (2018-present)
- **Past role holders:** -
The purpose of the community moderators role is to foster a welcoming and supportive environment where community members can collaborate, learn, and share knowledge.
Community moderators are responsible for welcoming new users into the OGGM spaces (mostly: Slack), facilitate discussions by e.g. pointing towards solutions online or pointing towards expert members that can help, moderate community platforms, and foster a sense of belonging within the community.
- **Current members:** Patrick Schmitt (2024-present), **Applications open!**
- **Past members:** Anouk Vlug (2020-2024)
The purpose of the meeting facilitators role is to create a space for transparent communication and community collaboration during our regular bi-weekly meetings.
Meeting facilitators are responsible for scheduling the open meetings, announce them, ensure all voices are heard, facilitate discussions, and document meeting outcomes.
- **Current members:** Fabien Maussion (2024-present), **Applications open!**
- **Past members:** Anouk Vlug (2020-2024), Matthias Dusch (2019-2020)
The purpose of the data curators role is to create, pre-process, post-process, and document new data products, ensuring data is in a usable format for the community. Mainly, data curators are managing all data available in the [OGGM-Shop](https://docs.oggm.org/en/stable/shop.html) and the [OGGM standard projections](https://docs.oggm.org/en/stable/download-projections.html).
OGGM data curators are responsible for managing the data generation process (including projections, pre and post-processing), ensuring data quality, ensuring that data is shared under FAIR principles, and maintaining the documentation of the data products.
- **Current members:** Lilian Schuster (2020-present), Patrick Schmitt (2020-present), Fabien Maussion (2015-present)
- **Past members:** Matthias Dusch (2019-2020)
The purpose of the workshop organiser role is to
Workshop organisers are responsible for
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The purpose of the website admin role is to
Website admin are responsible for
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The purpose of the education creator role is to
Education creators are responsible for
- **Current members:** Lizz Ultee (2019-present), Erik Holmgren (2020-2021), Lilian, Bea, Zora
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