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  <section id="clawpack-community">
<span id="community"></span><h1>Clawpack Community<a class="headerlink" href="#clawpack-community" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>We welcome new users!</strong></p>
<p>We also welcome new contributors; see <a class="reference internal" href="developers.html#developers"><span class="std std-ref">Developers’ Guide</span></a> for tips on
contributing code or new examples.</p>
<p>If you run into problems or can’t find the answer to
your question in these docs, please send a note to the
<a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/claw-users">claw-users google group</a>.</p>
<p>We have adopted the <a class="reference internal" href="code_of_conduct.html#code-of-conduct"><span class="std std-ref">NumFOCUS Code of Conduct</span></a>.  Please see that page for more information.</p>
<p><strong>Bug reports and suggested improvements</strong></p>
<p>If you find a bug or want to suggest an improvement, please raise an issue
on the appropriate GitHub repository, for example:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/issues</a> for general Clawpack
issues,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/doc/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/doc/issues</a> for documentation issues,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/visclaw/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/visclaw/issues</a> for visualization issues,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/pyclaw/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/pyclaw/issues</a> for PyClaw,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/classic/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/classic/issues</a> for the classic code,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/amrclaw/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/amrclaw/issues</a> for AMRClaw,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/geoclaw/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/geoclaw/issues</a> for GeoClaw,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/clawutil/issues">https://github.com/clawpack/clawutil/issues</a> for clawutil (utility functions).</p></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>We welcome new contributors and developers!</strong></p>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="photos.html#photos"><span class="std std-ref">Clawpack Community Photos</span></a> for some photos of the team.</p>
<p>The pages below give some tips for those who want to get involved.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="contribute_apps.html#contribute-apps"><span class="std std-ref">Contributing examples and applications</span></a> for ideas on how to make applications or examples
you’ve developed available to other users.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="developers.html#developers"><span class="std std-ref">Developers’ Guide</span></a> for instructions on how to clone the git repositories,
create your own forks, issue pull requests, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Join or browse the <a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/claw-dev">claw-dev google group</a>
to track discussion on the code.</p></li>
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<section id="user-workshops-clinics-and-tutorials">
<span id="tutorials"></span><h2>User Workshops, Clinics, and Tutorials<a class="headerlink" href="#user-workshops-clinics-and-tutorials" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="available-for-streaming">
<h3>Available for streaming<a class="headerlink" href="#available-for-streaming" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>The <a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIdwWtDvUG_kdn-KiSVroQ">Clawpack youtube channel</a>
now has several videos on aspects of GeoClaw.  Additional introductory
videos on Clawpack more generally will be added.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/07/30/tsunamis-landslides-and-asteroid-impacts-geoclaw-models-deadly-flows/">Tsunamis, Landslides and Asteroid Impacts: GeoClaw Models Deadly Flows</a>,
2025 Simons Foundation article on GeoClaw, accompanied by a couple of videos.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Presenters-0439">The GeoClaw software and tsunami modeling</a>
Webinar for CSDMS in 2019 by Randy LeVeque</p></li>
<li><p>A set of 25 videos on material from the book <a class="reference external" href="https://www.clawpack.org/fvmhp_materials/">Finite Volume Methods for
Hyperbolic Problems</a>
were recorded in 2023 and are available in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJVj2zE9oLRPo7Xn1QI6WTl9QrBXLkqS">this playlist</a>.
For a summary of the contents of each video, see <a class="reference external" href="https://faculty.washington.edu/rjl/classes/am574w2023/lectures.html">this webpage</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="upcoming">
<h3>Upcoming<a class="headerlink" href="#upcoming" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>No events currently planned.</p>
</section>
<section id="recent">
<h3>Recent<a class="headerlink" href="#recent" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Tutorial on GeoClaw and D-Claw at the <a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2024">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>
in May, 2024.
This was not recorded, but some of the teaching materials
are available in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/geoclaw_tutorial_csdms2024">this Github repository</a>.
including this Jupyter notebook on <a class="reference external" href="https://depts.washington.edu/clawpack/geoclaw/geoclaw_tutorial_csdms2024/quillayute/ViewPlotsQuillayute.html">Sample results for Quillayute River flooding</a></p></li>
<li><p>GeoClaw webinars and user help sessions
as part of the 2020 <a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2020">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>
took place online due to COVID-19, on May 22, 2020.
Four short presentations can be found on the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIdwWtDvUG_kdn-KiSVroQ">Clawpack youtube channel</a>.
For titles and links to related slides and resources, see the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/geoclawdev-2020/">workshop webpage</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Tutorial on storm surge modeling with GeoClaw, Tulane University, as part
of the <a class="reference external" href="http://www2.tulane.edu/sse/math/news/clifford-lectures-april-2017.cfm">Clifford Lectures</a>, April, 2017.</p></li>
<li><p>Minisymposterium on Clawpack and GeoClaw at
at the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse17">SIAM CSE 2017 Conference</a>,
February/March, 2017.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSDMS_2016_annual_meeting_Randy_LeVeque">Clinic at the CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>
in Boulder, CO, May 2016.</p></li>
<li><p>Minisymposterium on
<a class="reference external" href="http://depts.washington.edu/clawpack/posters/siam_cse_2015/">Clawpack Development, Extensions and Applications</a>
at the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse15/submissions.php">SIAM CSE 2015 Conference</a></p></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="developer-workshops-and-sprint-sessions">
<span id="workshops"></span><h2>Developer Workshops and Sprint Sessions<a class="headerlink" href="#developer-workshops-and-sprint-sessions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="id1">
<h3>Upcoming<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Please join us at one of the upcoming sessions, or help plan one elsewhere…</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Stay tuned.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="previous">
<h3>Previous<a class="headerlink" href="#previous" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>See the links below for summaries of some projects that
have been tackled (and/or are still work in progress).</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/clawdev-2025/">Clawpack/GeoClaw Developers Workshop</a>
following the <a class="reference external" href="https://sites.google.com/view/2025siampnwconference/home">5th Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section</a>.
University of Washington, October 6-7, 2026.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/geoclawdev-2025/">GeoClaw Developers Workshop</a>
held following the <a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2025">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>,
University of Colorado, May 16-18, 2025.</p></li>
<li><p>GeoClaw Developers Workshop at the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-mathematics/">Flatiron Institute
Center for Computational Mathematics</a>,
November 8-11, 2023.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/geoclawdev-2020/">GeoClaw Developers Workshop</a>
held via Zoom in conjunction with the <a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2020">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>,
May 22-23, 2020.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/geoclawdev-2018/">GeoClaw Developers Workshop</a>,
May 25-28, 2018, at the Univesity of Colorado, immediately following the
<a class="reference external" href="https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2018">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Developers’ workshop at the University of Washington, August
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/clawdev-2016/">2016</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Developers’ workshop at the University of Utah in
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/wiki/Claw-Dev-Hackathon,-March-2015">2015</a>,
following the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse15/submissions.php">SIAM CSE Conference</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\([HPC]^3\)</span> workshops at KAUST in
<a class="reference external" href="https://sites.google.com/site/hpc3atkaust/">2011</a>,
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/pyclaw/wiki/HPC3-2012">2012</a>,
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/clawpack/pyclaw/wiki/HPC3-2014">2014</a></p></li>
<li><p>Claw-Dev workshop at UW in <a class="reference external" href="http://www.clawpack.org/clawdev2013/">2013</a></p></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="clawpack-swag-and-logos">
<h2>Clawpack Swag and Logos<a class="headerlink" href="#clawpack-swag-and-logos" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://numfocus.myspreadshop.com/geoclaw">Clawpack and GeoClaw swag</a>
is now available!</p></li>
<li><p>See <a class="reference internal" href="logos.html#logos"><span class="std std-ref">Clawpack Logos</span></a> for more versions and a zip file of logos.</p></li>
</ul>
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