[yt-dev] 2nd yt workshop

Wed Sep 19 20:04:52 PDT 2012

Hi all,

I would prefer not the first set of dates.  I have a thing in Austin, TX on
February 17.

Britton

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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