[Yt-dev] Interest in a yt Workshop?

Brian O'Shea bwoshea at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 12:11:44 PDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Brian O'Shea <bwoshea at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >
>> > I was talking with someone here who went to a numerical workshop, and
>> > they handed out thumbdrives with full linux distros on them, so
>> > everyone had the same environment.  If there's money for something
>> > like that, it might be fun to have a full yt stack on thumb drives to
>> > minimize the startup cost at the workshop, if we want an interactive
>> > portion for new users.
>>
>> This is a very good idea.  Maybe we could try it with Amazon EC2?  I
>> have had success building an AMI in the past, and it's very easy to
>> do...  although not free, and not local.  I do though like the idea of
>> thumb drives...  and I can't imagine it wouldn't be an interactive
>> workshop!
>>
>
> To this end, somebody at MSU (Dirk Colbry) has taken to doing precisely the
> same thing for people who go to Teragrid/XSEDE/whateverthehell workshops
> here at Michigan State.  He loves it and is very fond of doing it.  If this
> is something that seems interesting to people, I can ask him about the
> setup, and what it would take to make a yt-specific one. I get the
> impression it isn't that hard!
>

p.s. to clarify, I meant thumb drives, not Amazon EC2.  Sorry 'bout the
confusion.
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