Inviting suggestions for breakout discussion topics at the 2021 CF workshop

[davidhassell]

Dear CF community,

We would like to invite suggestions for breakout discussion sessions to include in the CF on-line workshop 21-23 September 2021.

A breakout session is useful to increase the awareness of an active enhancement proposal, or other topic, that would benefit from a wider audience, or where the debate has perhaps stalled with text-only communication.

As the meeting is quite short, the breakout sessions will have to be parallelized, but on the last day of the workshop (23rd September 2021) the progress of each breakout session will be very briefly summarized in a plenary session.

Each breakout session can last for up to 90 minutes, which should comprise a short (<15 minutes) summary of the issue and what the outstanding questions are, followed by an open discussion to try to resolve the questions, or at least progress the discussion so that it can carry on more fruitfully after the meeting.

• If you would like to volunteer to "champion" an issue at the meeting, by presenting it and leading the subsequent discussion as described above, then please let us know by replying on this issue.

If you have already told us about a breakout session that you would like to occur (for which many thanks) then please do make a note of it on this issue as well, to help us keep track of the suggestions.

Below is a list of the most recently opened enhancement proposals, in which we have included the initial proposer and assignees, not to limit the invitation to them, but simply to increase the visibility of this request. This selection is given here for convenience and is by no means exhaustive - any open issue at https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues may be put forward.

In addition, other topics that are not represented by open GitHub issues are equally welcome.

Many thanks,
The workshop organising committee

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Rework intro to Section 8: Accuracy & precision cf-convention/cf-conventions#330 opened 10 days ago by @erget

Clarify and update CF rules for deprecating content cf-convention/cf-conventions#328 opened on 20 May by @ethanrd

Lossy Compression by Coordinate Sampling enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#327 opened on 5 May by @AndersMS

Update the "Release Checklist" in the Pull Request template GitHubProblem cf-convention/cf-conventions#325 opened on 30 Apr by @davidhassell

Update data model figures for the Domain, and provide new image creation source code enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#323 opened on 27 Apr by @davidhassell

How to Report Uncertainty Chapter enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#320 opened on 6 Apr by @kenkehoe

Restrict "gregorian" label to only dates in the Gregorian calendar enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#319 opened on 2 Apr by @Dave-Allured

new term for specific_enthalpy enhancement cf-convention/vocabularies#121 opened on 7 Jan by @oceannetworkscanada2

Alignment of new biological taxon standard names (Section 6.1.2) with the biological data standards community enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#309 opened on 19 Nov 2020 by @albenson-usgs, @davidhassell

Section 6.1.2 Taxon Names and Identifiers standard name for biological taxon identifier defect typo cf-convention/cf-conventions#308 opened on 19 Nov 2020 by @MathewBiddle

Interpretation of negative years in the units attribute enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#298 opened on 16 Sep 2020 by @peterkuma

Adding surface layer variables enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#293 opened on 19 Aug 2020 by @o2kenobi

New standard names for AMSR products enhancement cf-convention/vocabularies#22 opened on 6 Aug 2020 by @o2kenobi

Clarification of rules for positioning comment and interval in cell methods strings question cf-convention/cf-conventions#274 opened on 10 Jun 2020 by @martinjuckes

Support Swath Data in CF enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#269 opened on 14 May 2020 by @ajelenak, @erget

Technical issues style cf-convention/cf-conventions#267 opened on 12 May 2020 by @erget

Clarification of requirements on calendar attribute of a bounds variable defect cf-convention/cf-conventions#265 opened on 7 May 2020 by @martinjuckes

udunits supports ppm, but documentation states it does not enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#260 opened on 22 Apr 2020 by @mathiasbockwoldt

Clarification on x/y-grid direction in standard names question https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/#252 opened on 20 Mar 2020 by @hrajagers

Proposal: Example for Independent Latitude, Longitude, Non-spatiotemporal Variable, and Time Axes enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#249 opened on 2 Mar 2020 by @GeyerB

Remove restrictions on netCDF object names enhancement cf-convention/cf-conventions#237 opened on 23 Jan 2020 by @Dave-Allured