[yt-dev] 2nd yt workshop

[Anthony Scopatz]

Matt and I talked about doing a yt-dev workshop at some point in the
near-ish future.  I am definitely +1 to this idea.

Be Well
Anthony

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Kacper,
>
> Right now there are no official plans for a yt workshop.  However, a few
> of us have discussed the possibility of having a development-focused
> workshop for ~20 people at UC Santa Cruz for 3-4 days sometime in the
> Winter quarter (Jan - Mar 2013).  I put forward UCSC as a possible location
> since there are a decent number of active users/developers here and in the
> Bay area, however I think a meeting in Boulder or NYC probably makes just
> as much sense.  For any of the options, we will need to look into funding
> for travel, hotels, etc for the participants.  I know that we applied for
> an NSF grant for the users workshop, is that still possible this time
> around?  If it's going to be in California and we can make a case that
> there will be a good number of participants from UCs, we can probably apply
> for funding from HIPACC, although we need to discuss this possibility
> further with Joel Primack.
>
> I guess this is as good a time as any to ask: how do people feel about
> having a dev workshop sometime in the Winter quarter?  If you're
> supportive, do you have any preference for a location?  Personally I think
> it will be very productive to have a group of us in a room together for a
> few days to hash out new features, discuss where the code is going, hear
> about the science yt is enabling, and make some solid progress on improving
> the code.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nathan
>
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'd like to ask if there are any plans on organizing 2nd yt workshop?
> > It's this time of the year when I need to apply for grants at my
> > university and I'd very much like to include such event in the
> > application :)
> > Cheers,
> > Kacper
> >
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