[yt-dev] 2nd yt workshop

[Matthew Turk]

Hi everyone,

I like this idea a lot.  We had a really good success with this year's
workshop, and I think we can build on that with a development-focused
workshop sometime early next year.  I particularly like the way Nathan
posed it:

"...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."

My life is going to be a little bit complicated for a couple months,
but I think aiming for a Winter quarter workshop would be best, as I
think that will minimize conflicts with the usual fall
obligations/cycle.  Unless there are strong arguments to hold the
workshop in New York / Boulder, we should probably look into hosting
in California somewhere.  (One respondent to the usage workshop we had
this year was, "Chicago in January?  Really?")  I think we should
certainly investigate HIPACC as an opportunity for funding, as well as
the NSF; once we have figured out if we're going to hold it and where,
we can begin those processes.

Before we start digging in to properly planning something, we should
definitely get a better idea of who would be interested in attending.
I've set up a little survey here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpZMjc4czJMQ2MtWERReVdiT0IxaFE6MQ#gid=0

Responses both for and against are useful information.  In a few days
we'll see how things have turned out and we can take it from there.

-Matt

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Anthony Scopatz <scopatz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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