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 ## <i class="fa-regular fa-heart"></i> Announcing the pyOpenSci Fall Festival!
 
-_This post was last updated on 11 September, 2024_
+_This post was last updated on 23 September, 2024_
 
 Happening October 28--November 01, 2024, the pyOpenSci Fall Festival is an online community training and networking event designed to empower scientists with in demand open science skills. Our goals for the Fall Festival are to:
 
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 * [Eric Mah](https://ericmjl.github.io/)
 * [Melissa Mendoça](https://github.com/melissawm)
+* [Rowan Cockett](https://curvenote.com/mission)
 
 We'll also be holding "Day 0" office hours for all registered attendees. You can use this time to drop in to say hello, get used to using our online platform, [Gather](https://www.gather.town/), and get help with any computer setup issues that you might have.
 
+#### Keynote speaker bios
+
+**[Eric Mah](https://ericmjl.github.io/)**
+As Senior Principal Data Scientist at [Moderna](https://www.modernatx.com/en-US) Eric leads the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Research) team to accelerate science to the speed of thought. Prior to Moderna, he was at the [Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research](https://www.novartis.com/research-and-development) conducting biomedical data science research with a focus on using Bayesian statistical methods in the service of discovering medicines for patients. Prior to Novartis, he was an [Insight Health Data Fellow](https://insightfellows.com/health-data) in the summer of 2017 and defended his doctoral [thesis](https://ericmjl.github.io/thesis/) in the [Department of Biological Engineering](https://be.mit.edu/) at [MIT](https://web.mit.edu/) in the spring of 2017.
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+Eric is also an open-source software developer and has led the development of [pyjanitor](https://github.com/pyjanitor-devs/pyjanitor), a clean API for cleaning data in Python, and [nxviz](https://github.com/ericmjl/nxviz), a visualization package for NetworkX. He is also on the core developer team of NetworkX and PyMC. In addition, he gives back to the community through [code contributions](https://deploy-preview-108--ericmjl-github-io.netlify.app/open-source/), [blogging](https://deploy-preview-108--ericmjl-github-io.netlify.app/blog/), [teaching](https://deploy-preview-108--ericmjl-github-io.netlify.app/teaching/), and [writing](https://deploy-preview-108--ericmjl-github-io.netlify.app/books/).
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+His personal life motto is found in the Gospel of Luke 12:48.
+
+**[Melissa Mendoça](https://github.com/melissawm)**
+I am a Senior DevEx Engineer at Quansight, working on NumPy, SciPy and other open source projects. I care deeply about teaching, mentoring, and have been involved in the Python community for some time. You can find most of my talk slides here on github or in [my website](https://melissawm.github.io/); feel free to use those according to the licenses stated in each repo/presentation.
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+💬 Ask me about [NumPy](https://numpy.org/), [SciPy](https://scipy.org/), [napari](https://napari.org/stable/), Fortran, LaTeX, mathematical optimization, numerical linear algebra, [Contributor Experience](https://contributor-experience.org/).
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+**[Rowan Cockett](https://curvenote.com/mission)**
+
+Rowan is the CEO and founder of [Curvenote](https://curvenote.com), where we build tools to free science from static PDF documents such that the scientific community can share more interactive, reproducible, and richly-linked scientific content. Curvenote provides an all-in-one publishing platform for researchers, societies and institutes, with a focus on computational research.
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+Rowan is also on the steering-council for JupyterBook and MyST Markdown, which is part of Project Jupyter and provides widely used open-source tools for authoring and sharing scientific content. Rowan has a Ph.D. in computational geophysics from the University of British Columbia (UBC). While at UBC, Rowan helped start [SimPEG](https://simpeg.xyz), a large-scale simulation and parameter estimation package for geophysical processes (electromagnetics, fluid-flow, gravity, etc.), which is used in industry, national labs, and universities globally.
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+Rowan has won multiple awards for innovative dissemination of research and open-educational resources, including a geoscience modeling application, Visible Geology, that has been used by more than a million geoscience students to interactively explore conceptual geologic models. In his previous role as the VP of Cloud Architecture at Seequent, Rowan ran a large software team working on computational software platforms, visualization tools, and version control systems for geoscientists.
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 ### Tuesday, October 29th--Friday, November 01st
 
 Every workshop day of the pyOpenSci Fall Festival will follow the same format:
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 ### Friday, November 1st: Reproducible reports and presentations with Quarto and Great Tables
 
+#### Morning talks
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+We'll be opening this session with two incredible talks on Quarto from [James Balamuta](https://github.com/coatless) and [George Stagg](https://gws.phd/)!
+
+#### Workshop
+
 If you want to use data to make decisions, answer scientific questions, inform people on issues or participate in data-driven journalism, just conducting the data analysis is not enough. Effective communication requires weaving together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output that people can easily read and understand. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use Quarto for reports and presentations and Great Tables for elegantly formatted tables to convey information that's great for the readers, and easy for you to create too.
 Quarto is an open source tool based on Pandoc that allows you to create and publish reproducible, production-quality articles, presentations, dashboards, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more, right from your Jupyter notebooks.
 
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 * [Leah Wasser](https://www.leahwasser.com/)
 * [Eric Mah](https://ericmjl.github.io/)
 * [Melissa Mendoça](https://github.com/melissawm)
+* [Rowan Cockett](https://curvenote.com/blog/myst-markdown-pyopensci-2024)
 * [Carol Willing](https://www.willingconsulting.com/)
 * [Jeremiah Paige](https://github.com/ucodery)
+* [James Balamuta](https://github.com/coatless)
+* [George Stagg](https://gws.phd/)
 * [Tracy Teal](https://tkteal.com/)
 * [Rich Iannone](https://github.com/rich-iannone)
 * [Jesse Mostipak](https://github.com/kierisi)
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 ## FAQ
 
-* **How do I apply for a scholarship?**
+**How do I apply for a scholarship?**
 
 If you are financially unable to attend pyOpenSci's Fall Festival, please reach out to us at [[email protected]](mailto:pyopensci.org) to request a link to our scholarship application. We will be accepting applications until Monday, September 30th, and reviewing them through Friday, October 11th.
 
-* **Can I register for a single day?**
+**Can I register for a single day?**
 
 Yes! You can chose to register for entire event or you can buy tickets for 1, 2 or 3 days. To stay up to date on any changes to our ticketing for the pyOpenSci Fall Festival, be sure to follow us on [Fosstodon](https://fosstodon.org/@pyOpenSci) or [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/pyopensci).
 
-* **What if I purchased a ticket but can no longer attend?**
+**What if I purchased a ticket but can no longer attend?**
 
 All refunds are processed through Eventbrite, and will be accepted until October 21st, 2024. You will receive a refund for your ticket price less any service fees.
 
 If you purchased your ticket after October 21st you will be ineligible for a refund, however you may donate it to another learner. To do so, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
 
-* **How will pyOpenSci use my registration information?**
+**How will pyOpenSci use my registration information?**
 
 pyOpenSci will use your registration information to send you information related to the Fall Festival, as well as to send you both pre- and post-surveys related to the Fall Festival.
 
-* **How can I help promote the Fall Festival?**
+**How can I help promote the Fall Festival?**
 
 We would love for you to share your excitement and enthusiasm with your peers, both in-person and on social media! You’re welcome to use any of the images that we've shared on social media related to the event, and we’d love if you could tag us in anything you share!
 
-* **Will the Fall Festival workshops be recorded?**
+**Will the Fall Festival workshops be recorded?**
 
 The only recording will be of the kickoff talk, happening on Monday, October 28th, 2024. The additional talks and workshops will not be recorded. Should workshop instructors choose to share their content online, we will be sure to share the relevant links on social media.