Blog post about the 2026 Cook-off#584
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| ### Expanding the Cookbook gallery |
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Could we cross-link the other blog post I posted about the listing plugin improvements etc? That could be a nice tie-in to the infrastructure-focused impact goals
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| ### Infrastructure | ||
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| *Shout out to 2i2c and Angus. Discuss challenges around provisioning computational resources, collaboration through GitHub, etc.* |
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Would be great to do a little "lessons learned" debrief in the retro and use that to seed this section
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also the gallery of images is really neat, I haven't seen people lay out images like that before 
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This is written up the myst docs: https://mystmd.org/guide/figures#control-sub-figure-layout-with-a-grid (though it does make the markdown source pretty ugly) |
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| :alt: Pythia Cook-off 2026 participants from the University at Albany in front of the Mesa Lab main entrance | ||
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| Cook-off 2026 participants from [UAlbany DAES](https://www.albany.edu/daes). From left to right: Kevin Tyle, Juan Diego Mantilla, Kathryn Rooney, Bella Condo, Brian Rose, Robert Ford, Matthew Lynne, Alex Blackmer, Jacob Vile. |
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For consistency, do we know the photo credit?
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I don't! I think it was whoever Bella handed her phone to?
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A few quick comments and suggestions from me - nothing major! I think it reads really nicely, and is a good balance of detail and quickness. I had one non-trivial suggestion in there about using myst-listing to display a gallery of images for all the cookbooks, rather than a list of them...what do you think? Might be too much complexity, but if you think it'd be cool I can try and see if we could add it (though this would depend on each cookbook having its own image or something)
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| ## Another Pythia hackathon: cooked, served, and shared |
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Maybe promote this to the title instead of having both a title and starting the post with a section header? not a big deal tho, I like the cooked, served, and shared line 😅
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I like this! Adopted in the latest commit.
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| This year we had eight breakout groups including seven Cookbook-focussed groups: | ||
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| - [Meteorological feature tracking](https://github.com/ProjectPythia/feature-tracking-cookbook) with group leader [Matthew Lynne](https://github.com/mattsl21) |
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What if we inserted our own little "listing" here? I think you could do this with a little YAML file, then you'd be able to show the .jpegs of each cookbook? Like a little mini cookbook gallery? If you're interested in that lemme know and maybe I can hack together a quick improvement to myst-listing to make that work
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I mused a bit on how much attention to draw to the individual cookbooks. Because the various groups are at different stages of readiness for public eyes on the work, I settled on having more of a listing of breakout group topics rather than a gallery of cookbooks.
My hope is that we'll get a good fraction of these into the Pythia gallery by end of summer (many are basically ready for it now), and then do another blog post kind of like this one that shouts out the content more clearly.
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| - Breakout groups: 8 | ||
| - Technical facilitators: 11 | ||
| - Total commits to repositories in the [ProjectPythia GitHub organization](https://github.com/ProjectPythia): 842 |
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Yep that's a fun statistic. I needed some help from Claude to write script to count these using the gh api.
| Cook-off 2026 participants from [UAlbany DAES](https://www.albany.edu/daes). From left to right: Kevin Tyle, Juan Diego Mantilla, Kathryn Rooney, Bella Condo, Brian Rose, Robert Ford, Matthew Lynne, Alex Blackmer, Jacob Vile. | ||
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| UAlbany is a lead partner with NSF NCAR on Project Pythia. This year we had a record-breaking nine participants travel from Albany to Boulder for the event, including three breakout group leaders and two technical facilitators. Go [Great Danes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Great_Danes)! |
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TIL that the Great Dane is a mascot :-D
Co-authored-by: Chris Holdgraf <choldgraf@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: Chris Holdgraf <choldgraf@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris Holdgraf <choldgraf@gmail.com>
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after those changes it LGTM! I should have approved before sorry haha
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A rapid report (with pics) on what we did at the hackathon last week.
I also moved some things around on the main landing page to make the blog easier to find. I can separate that out into a different PR if there's controversy about that.