NEXT openmod Workshop

[berit.mueller]

Dear OpenModders,
We just had an exciting WS on the usefulness of ontologies to improve linkability and transparency of data / databases. In our discussion afterwards, we realized that we would like to discuss this with the Openmod community and find out who else is working on this. So here would be the topic for a lightning talk and tutorial for the next openmod workshop. And in doing so, I noticed that I don’t even know who has taken over the organization of the next workshop and when it should take place… Is there someone? Otherwise we would organize it according to the past online workshops - but a live meeting with different topics would be really nice after all this time.

[robbie.morrison]

Hi @berit.mueller I just tagged your topic as workshop-15 because it will be number 15. See wikipedia for a list of the previous events. Amazing!

[tom_brown]

There was a vote on the next workshop back at the beginning of 2020, and it was decided to host in Freiburg:

Call for hosting the next open mod workshop after Berlin 2020

Dear all, thanks for the the votes! We are looking forward to hosting the next on-site OpenMod Workshop in sunny Freiburg, the “Home of the Energiewende”! Currently, we are aiming for a date in mid September, but we will have to see how the Corona virus crisis evolves. The University of Freiburg also had to postpone a large number of exams and might shift the semester, which affects the availability of local infrastructure. We will prepare for different scenarios and announce a date when we ha…

Open Energy Modelling Workshop — Freiburg 2020

Dear open-mod community, you haven’t heard from us for a while. Given the current situation, here in Freiburg we are still discussing several options for the Open Energy Modelling Workshop supposed to take place in 2020; an online conference, a conference in late September 2020, a conference in spring 2021, and further alternatives. For now we want to inform you that we will take some more time to observe the situation, both here in Germany and in other countries. In middle of June 2020, we wi…

Since the pandemic is ongoing and infection numbers are rising fast across Europe, it seems we’ll still have to wait until at least Spring 2022, unless we do something online…

[berit.mueller]

Thanks Robbie for tagging - and sorry for not yet automated registrations-management (we will ameliorate that :))
and thanks Tom for pointing to the Freiburg voting - I didn’t find that. But I guess you’re right, that it will end up being an online Mini-WS…
We’ll discuss this week with the Orga-Team.
Have a nice week!!

[robbie.morrison]

LF Energy

I participate in the LF Energy data architecture working group. LF Energy is an initiative from the Linux Foundation and here is a succinct summary of the project:

• Goodman, Shuli (1 November 2021). Open source meet your biggest challenge yet: saving the planet. Renewable Energy World. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

LF Energy is essentially focused on smart systems and our community on overarching analysis. These two strands are, of course, simultaneously distinct and highly coupled. Indeed, both camps would do well to acknowledge potential contributions from their near neighbors to a greater degree.

So I am suggesting that the next workshop invites LF Energy to give a keynote presentation. That is not my call of course — it is one for the workshop organizers. But I believe there are good reasons to cooperate with LF Energy and especially to avoid unnecessary divergence on matters like data semantics. Best, R

[robbie.morrison]

To note that LF Energy have indicated their willingness to participate as outlined above. R