Contributing to the HelioCloud Open Science Cloud Computing Community

HelioCloud is an open-source software stack that provides research groups an easy onboarding path into big data/high performance computing cloud capabilities, specifically tuned for heliophysics research and backed by 1.5 Petabytes of science data stored in the AWS cloud.  Any institution can spin up a own HelioCloud for ephemeral (summer schools, class) and institutional (research groups, long-term project) use. It exists at heliocloud.org and in Github, it works, and to future-proof it, we are opening the doors for community contributions. 

We discuss our draft community standards for the Jupyter Notebook-based Daskhub, the Portal for creating VMs, the many tutorial Notebooks, and the ancillary tools such as CloudCatalog.  What we hope to gain from DASH is an understanding from participants of what will make it easier for you to use and contribute to this open science infrastructure cloud suite.  Plus we hope you will check HelioCloud out and consider it for boosting your own scientific workflow.