Feedback in the closing plenary

[danielhuppmann]

Responses to the question “Cool things you learnt at the workshop”

Ideas for next workshop

Agenda

• More hands-on, practical training & capacity-building sessions
• More lightning talks
• More break-out groups
• More hands-on do-a-thons
• Dedicated poster sessions (with 1-minute plenary introduction for each poster)
• “Speed dating” to get to know other participants
• Dedicated Hackathon day after the conference

Topical

• Comparison between model (framework) features
• Data-sharing workshops
• More focus on demand-side & sufficiency modelling
• More detailed examples for linking models
• How-to Science Communication
• How-to Archiving model runs
• Workflow management
• Interactive visualizations

Practical issues

• Newbie’s guide
  • how to get started and contribute to openmod
  • how to use the forum effectively
  • what are the expectations of the community
• Ask for participants’ expectations in interactive sessions
• Outdoor sessions
• More focus on global south & non-EU
• Documentation of break-out groups on the forum
• Warm lunch
• Better labelling of food options at buffet

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[robbie.morrison]

To provide some context for the feedback diagram above, please note:

• Calliope is a framework being led by ETH Zurich and TU Delft
• Linopy is a solver interface written in Python being led by the PyPSA team
• pyam is a Python package for scenario analysis and visualization being led by IIASA
• RAMP is a demand profile generator originally from KTH Stockholm
• xarray may have been a typo for karray, pyiam is probably a typo for pyam
• the EIA is the US Energy Information Administration
• OEP is the Open Energy Platform being developed by the Reiner Lemoine Institute and partners
• more on (energy‑services) sufficiency here and here
• Spätzle is Austrian food
• the references to "silver coins" and "voltaic pile" arose from @SaulehS’s keynote talk in relation to this early battery from Count Volta

[ludwig.huelk]

Thanks Robbie, some corrections:

• Xarray is a python package: https://xarray.dev/

• I would not attribute the software projects to specific institutes. They are partly incorrect or simplify the collaborative projects (OEP, RAMP, Calliope)