[yt-dev] 2nd yt workshop

Wed Sep 19 14:06:17 PDT 2012

Hi everyone,

Okay, after a week or so we've had 13 positive responses.  January is
the worst month, so I'd like to suggest we investigate either February
or March.  California is the clear winner for locations, which I think
will also help out a lot with funding and with overall atmosphere.

I'd like to propose we start talking about one of the following three
weeks -- we should then narrow down to a subset of days in the week.
Can anyone think of existing conflicts for, or obvious preferences
among:

1) February 18-22
2) March 4-8
3) March 25-29

(An advantage of this time frame is that the elephant seals will be at
Año Nuevo, if we end up spending time at Santa Cruz.)  Once we have
narrowed down the week, we can write a proposal to HIPACC as Chris
suggested, and proceed from there.

I think this could be a very, very successful meeting for our community.

-Matt

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Christopher Moody <cemoody at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Sorry to join this conversation late. I've talked about this (very briefly!)
> with Joel Primack for HIPACC funding, and he was very supportive that this
> we should write up a proposal. He comes back from China next week, so I can
> bring it up again then.
>
> Santa Cruz is a bit warmer than Chicago in January...
>
> chris
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've had a good number of responses so far, all of them "Yes!".  If
>> you're a regular contributor to either the mailing list or the code
>> base, it would be really beneficial to submit a "Nope" response if you
>> know you wouldn't be able to attend.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpZMjc4czJMQ2MtWERReVdiT0IxaFE6MQ#gid=0
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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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