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title: VRE Webinar Discussion
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# Discussion
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## Discussion topics

:point_right: Suggest your own topic
- Future meetings
- Hackathon as part of [PyHC fall meeting](http://heliopython.org/meetings/fall2020/): make a notebook on accessing solar wind data together with FAC/AEJs from Swarm & ground observatory dB/dt
- Meeting together with [INTERMAGNET](intermagnet.github.io/): gather requirements for new dashboards; review current dissemination activities
- Help people learn geomag & find related services
- [Magnetic Earth](https://magneticearth.org/pages/software.html) outreach project
- Desired tools:
- Conversion utilities for Orsted & CHAMP data (and others)
- VirES: Option to filter by custom time series: for comparing effect of selection routines used between different models
- Discussion, help, and feedback
- Documentation: More details on conda & docker environments for advanced users
- New "GitHub Discussions" feature coming soon [(Q4 2020)](https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1)
- Maybe a dedicated chat channel in Matrix/Element
- Upcoming features:
- new GVO & PRISM Swarm datasets
- quicklook plots directly from viresclient
- interactive dashboards:
- Geomagnetic model explorer
- Improve accessibility of [eoxmagmod](https://github.com/ESA-VirES/MagneticModel/) for rapid forward evaluation of models

> Get in touch any time!
https://smithara.github.io (contact Ashley directly)
>
> Suggestions are welcome! [Open an Issue](https://github.com/ESA-VirES/Swarm-VRE/issues)

- Long term
- New *Swarm* Python packages (*toolkits*) & strengthening of wider community packages
- Geomagnetic data cubes?: reprocessed magnetic data with residuals to different model combinations, aggregated onto a high resolution grid, disseminated by cloud tech (would enable rapid remote access to full dataset)