nmfs-openscapes · stefaniebutland · Sep 30, 2025 · Sep 30, 2025
diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml
@@ -48,9 +48,7 @@ website:
         text: Mentors Community
         contents: 
           - href: mentors/activities.qmd
-            text: Current Activities  
-          - href: mentors/activities.html#previous-activities
-            text: Previous activities
+            text: Activities
           - href: mentors/mentor-calls.qmd
             text: Mentor Calls Skills            
       - href: champions.qmd

diff --git a/mentors/activities.qmd b/mentors/activities.qmd
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "Current Activities"
+title: "Activities"
 ---
 
 ### 2025 Mentors Community
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ title: "Current Activities"
     -   Summer break
     -   **August - September:** Engagement and signups for 3 Fall NMFS Openscapes Champions Cohorts
     -   **October - December:** [NMFS Openscapes Champions Cohorts](../champions.qmd)
-
 -   **Coworking** (Tuesdays, weekly):
     -   Work on your goals! Coworking sessions by design have no agenda, are self-organizing and work-focused. They are less about "big ideas for discussion". They work best when a few people show up with concrete things to accomplish or work on, and we get quickly into breakout rooms to cowork on these ideas. 
     -   When you show up, these are some of the specific things that you can do: 
@@ -35,12 +34,21 @@ The NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors Summer Workshop is July 21. A hybrid event
 
 **Mentors' Social Hour:** No-host dinner will follow at 5:30-7:30pm at [Agua Verde Cafe](https://www.aguaverdecafe.com/), 1303 NE Boat Street, Seattle, Washington 98105. Friends and colleagues are welcome!
 
+### **2025 ESIP Summer Meeting**
+
+July 22-25 in Seattle - cross-government open data science folks attending in person and online.
+
+NMFS Openscapes co-led two sessions:
+
+-   **Archive your first or second dataset** ([slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1na8ciQn2QROL4zEWq0q8bN0ym_3wOZS_Hzd6fBmJXnY/edit?slide=id.g37049fcd87e_3_73#slide=id.g37049fcd87e_3_73),[ recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrRUGZZ4imM&list=PL8X9E6I5_i8gkfxDKDXMIJNw7L1GbjmiT&index=35)). Joseph Gum, Rachael Blake (Director of Data Science, Intertidal Agency), Kate Wing (Executive Director, Intertidal Agency), Eli Holmes\
+    (NMFS Open Science lead, NOAA Fisheries), Julia Lowndes (Director, Openscapes)
+
+-   **Crossing the chasm: Amplifying success stories about co-creating across institutions** ([slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14ZSgvUbgVMrf_oD2QBIb7NBViavp2dX-Yae3WPITuKo/),[ recording](https://youtu.be/tL6y_DhCu7U)). Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries, NMFS Openscapes) Julie Lowndes (Openscapes), Jen Schopf (Texas Advanced Computing Center, UT Austin), Amy Steiker (NASA National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC DAAC), NASA Openscapes), Yuvi (2i2c / Project Jupyter), And many other contributors!
+
 ### Winter 2025 Group Coaching
 
 The NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors Winter 2025 skillbuilding activities to become better mentors and team leaders. The "Mentoring with a Coach Approach" will be a 5-session Mentor Calls takeover Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 pm PT on February 12, 26, March 12, 26, and April 9.
 
-## Previous Activities
-
 ### Summer-Fall 2024
 
 To kick off Mentors activities, we will focus on preparing for and leading three fall Champions Cohorts. Immediate activities will include scheduling and communicating the opportunity with colleagues, including sending emails, giving talks, ask-me-anythings, and helping folks sign up.
@@ -69,7 +77,7 @@ The FY24 mentor cohort will start with a mentors-only Openscapes Champions cohor
 **Mentor Calls** are when we convene as a group to learn and plan. Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our [Cohort Google Folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eL0OnwySgTjcI_J6iI0NR8BgiqG0jB9V?usp=sharing); they are also an archive of our live notetaking. See [Mentor Calls Skills](mentor-calls.qmd) for details.
 
 | Date | Mentor Call Topics |
-|------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
+|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
 | 10/17 | 1\. Openscapes mindset for mentors: What does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean? <!-- Julie is point --> |
 | 10/31 | 2\. Developing strong Open and Collaborative Communities <!--Stef is point: Stef Butland on the rOpenSci and rLadies --> |
 | 11/14 | 3\. The art of teaching skills: running GitHub clinics <!-- Eli is point: 5 min on the Women in Data Sci GitHub clinic; triads on talk, show, do ---> |
@@ -81,7 +89,7 @@ The FY24 mentor cohort will start with a mentors-only Openscapes Champions cohor
 **Seaside Chats** are for small-group coworking in weeks alternating between Mentor Calls. Topics are to reflect with your other center mentors in-between cross-center cohort calls. Note particants from different centers or offices can have Seaside chats together. We will organize our Seaside chats after the first mentor calls.
 
 | Date | Seaside co-working sessions |
-|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
+|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
 | Week of 10/23 | Begin work on an Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program. Where are you at? Where would you like to be? Do you have the info you need to answer this? |
 | Week of 11/6 | Keep working Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program with specific discussions of needs/challenges |
 | Week of 11/20 | Cross-FMC discussions of Open Science Pathways and work on shared organizing with GitHub |