Zambia, Malawi (AWS)
Zimbabwe (physical box)

Varia

during During round table participants should touch on knowledge of WIS (WIS 2), local IT environment and observing network. Could be helpful to give them a demo presentation. (Xiaoxia Chen , HADDOUCH Hassan )
We need a WIS 2 cheat-sheet (wis2box, docker, linux commands) (Rory Burke (Unlicensed)

TODO

participants Participants to share their plans to contribute to the pilot-phase
Make day 5 possibly a workshop, preceded by a 4-day training

Timetable

Day 1

subjectSubject

teacherTeacher

Learning objectives

Presentations

1

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

2

09:00 - 11:00

Opening & Photo & Round table

PR, WMO

Participants know arrangements (moodle, agenda, training environment) and each other
Participants present based on the skeleton presentation

View file

name	Day1-Template for participants-Observation Network and IT Infrastructure.pptx

3

11:00 - 11:30

Break

4

11:30 - 12:00

WIS 2.0 Implementation plan

Hassan

Implementation plan with particular focus on the pilot phase

View file

name	WIS2-Pilot-phase-Namibia.pptx

5

12:00 - 12:30

WIS 2.0 Architecture

Enrico

WIS 2 components

Role of pub/sub in WIS 2 (MQTT)

View file

name	WIS 2.0 Architecture.pptx

6

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch break

7

13:30 - 14:30

Practical session: Connecting to WIS2 over MQTT

Maaike/Timo

How to use MQTT-explorer to view topic-structure
Subscribe to GB and observe WIS 2 traffic

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/connecting-to-mqtt/

8

14:30 - 15:15

Introducing WIS 2 WIS2 in a box

Tom/Enrico

Know the WIS 2 project, organization and location (GitHub)
Understand WIS 2 standards and how they are used in wis2box

View file

name	wis2box-training-day1-introduction.pptx

9

15:15 - 15:45

Break

10

15:45 - 16:30

WIS 2 WIS2 box case studies (Malawi)

Enrico

Understand how WIS 2 box has been used by peers

View file

name	WIS 2.0 box case studies.pptx

11

16:30 - 17:00

Wrap-up / open issues

Timo/all

Review understanding of WIS 2 / Q&A
Help people to connect to the WIFI
Check software works
Possible continuation of #2

Day 2

subjectSubject

teacherTeacher

Learning objectives

Presentations

1

09:00 - 09:30

The training environment

Timo

Understand how the practical training will work
Software stack (VM, docker)

link to slides shared out of OneDrive

2

09:30 - 11:00

Practical session: accessing your student VM

Maaike/Timo

Install putty/filezilla etc
Connect to the VM
Run commands (docker & python)

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/access-your-student-vm/

3

11:00 - 11:30

Break

4

11:30 - 12:30

WIS 2 WIS2 box project & installation

Tom

Know WIS 2 project (GitHub)
How to install WIS 2 box

View file

name	wis2box-training-day2-project-install.pptx

5

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

6

13:30 - 15:00

Practical session: Installing WIS2-box WIS2box (with test-data), part 1

Maaike/Tom

How to:

Download latest WIS 2 box archive
Define dev.env to use test-data
Build and start wis2box
Ingest test-data

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/installing-wis2box-with-test-data/

7

15:00 - 15:30

Break

8

15:30 - 16:30

Practical session: Installing WIS2-box WIS2box (with test-data), part 2

Maaike/Tom

How to:

View data in WIS2box-UI
View data in WIS2box-API
View monitoring dashboard
Connect to local broker

see previous

9

16:30 - 17:00

Group discussion: insights and challenges installing WIS 2 boxWIS2box

Timo/all

Participants share their experience and understanding installing WIS 2 box

Day 3

subjectSubject

teacherTeacher

Learning objectives

Presentations

1

09:00 - 11:00

BUFR and ecCodes (theory and practicals)

Enrico

Basic BUFR knowledge
Know ecCodes tools for BUFR
Know how to inspect a BUFR file

View file

name	WMO_BUFR_in_a_nutshell.pptx

View file

name	WMO_BUFR_with_ecCodes.pptx

2

11:00 - 11:30

Break

3

11:30 - 12:15

Conversion to BUFR: csv2bufr, synop2bufr, bufr2bufr (theory and practicals)

Maaike/Enrico

Transfer data into the training container
Use csv2bufr, bufr2bufr and synop2bufr

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/converting-csv-data-to-bufr/

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/converting-synop-data-to-bufr/

4

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

5

13:15 - 14:00

Theory: Box architecture and components, and how to configure them

Tom

Understand the general WIS2box architecture
Know the core services in the WIS2 box (wis2box-management, minio, broker, wis2box-api)
Know typical data flow from AWS → WIS2box → GB
How to locate WIS 2 box latest release archive

View file

name	wis2box-training-day3-architecture.pptx

6

14:00 - 14:45

Practical sessions:

WIS2-boxWIS2box: Configuring data-mappings

WIS2-boxWIS2box: Configuring WIS2 discovery metadata

Tom/Maaike

Understand how to customize data-mapping used by WIS2box
How to correctly define topic-hierarchy
Understand the required fields for WIS2 disovery metadata record and how to correctly populated these fields
Know the commands used to update/publish discovery metadata in wis2box

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/configuring-data-mappings/

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/configuring-wis2-discovery-metadata/

7

14:45 - 15:15

Break

8

15:00 - 15:45

Practical session:

WIS2-boxWIS2box: Configuring station metadata

Maaike/Tom

Learn how to define stations in WIS2box
Know the commands used to update/publish station metadata in WIS2box

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/configuring-station-metadata/

9

15:45 - 16:30

Practical session:
WIS2-boxWIS2box: data ingesting and monitoring

Maaike/Tom

How to send data into WIS 2 box
How to observe processing and publishing in wis2box
Know how to detect and resolve issues in data processing in wis2box

https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/data-ingest-and-monitoring/

10

16:30 - 17:00

Group discussion: insights and challenges using WIS 2 boxWIS2box

Timo/all

Participants share their experience and understanding using WIS 2 box

	Day 4	subjectSubject	teacherTeacher	Learning objectives	Presentations
1	09:00 - 10:00	Obtaining data from WIS 2WIS2	Tom	Discovery metadata workflow Local workshop catalogue How to download data from WIS 2 Role of WIS 2 box in obtaining data from WIS 2
2	10:00 - 11:00	Practical session: WIS2-boxWIS2box: downloading data from WIS 2WIS2	Maaike/Tom	Use pywis-pubsub Use tools to work with the data	https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2box-training/practical-sessions/downloading-data-from-wis2/
3	11:00 - 11:30	Break
4	11:30 - 12:30	Participating in the pilot phase as a WIS2 node	Timo	How to participate in the pilot-phase How to register a node in WIS 2 (which information is needed & process) How to get a WIGOS Station Identifier How to register a station in OSCAR/Surface
5	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
6	13:30 - 15:30	reserved / buffer
7	15:30 - 16:00	Break
8	16:00 - 17:00	Group discussion: lessons learned & questions from the day and so far	Timo	Close the training Answer questions Wrap up the 4-day training course

WIS 2 workshop & planning

Day 5

subjectSubject

teacherTeacher

Learning objectives

Presentations

1

09:00 - 10:00

Next steps with WIS 2WIS2

Hassan/Enrico

think Think about how to implement WIS 2
understand Understand the options how to run a WIS 2 box nationally (private vs public cloud)
Pilot-phase practicals

View file

name	Next-steps-Namibia.pptx

2

10:00 - 11:30

Round table: participants' plans for WIS 2WIS2

Enrico/all

Participants present the WIS 2 plans of their country
The presentation is based on a template

View file

name	Day5-Template for participants-WIS 2.0 National Plan.pptx

3

11:00 - 11:30

Break

4

11:30 - 12:30

Discussion and Q&A

Timo/all

all

5

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

6

13:30 - 15:30

Closing

PR/WMO

Feedback & discussion
Training Certificates
Closing ceremony

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