[yt-dev] SciPy abstract submission
Matthew Turk
matthewturk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 10:36:23 PST 2014
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Like I mentioned in the last e-mail thread, I'm interested in going to
> scipy. I had in mind taking more of a leadership role for a yt talk,
> if only so I can get my name and face out there a bit more prominently
> as I get ready to apply for jobs.
I think that's a great idea. As I noted ... "I do not have any
particular interest in acting as the primary presenter." :) I think
we should divide it up between people that are attending.
>
> Would you be interested in having more input from me on the abstract?
Yes.
> Right now it's mostly focused on things in your wheelhouse.
>
> Alternatively I'd be happy to submit a separate abstract if you think
> that would be best.
It's up to you, but I'm moderately -1 on that.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The (nominal) due date for submissions for SciPy2014 is next Friday:
>> https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2014/ . I think we should aim to
>> have a strong presence there -- I've heard from a couple people they
>> plan to be there, which is *awesome*. For various reasons, I am only
>> going to be traveling to the yt workshop in Santa Cruz and SciPy for a
>> little while, so I am planning to be there the entire duration. There
>> are a few things I think we should consider:
>>
>> * A joint talk introducing yt 3.0, where everyone in attendance
>> either participates in the talk or acts as ambassadors. I want this
>> to be submitted to the general track. I do not have any particular
>> interest in acting as the primary presenter.
>> * Sprints! For sure.
>> * Possibly a talk submitted to the astro track about domain-specific
>> stuff, like Hilary's spectrum generator, or John's Chandra generator,
>> or the integration with Rockstar, or even AGORA.
>> * We should participate in the WSSSPE workshop, which will be on
>> Thursday afternoon. Looks like right now I'll be co-chairing this.
>> * We may consider submitting a poster in addition, which emphasizes
>> things like outreach using yt.
>>
>> Here are my drafts of the sprint and talk abstracts. You should be
>> able to provide comments on them by right-clicking. If you want
>> direct edit privs, let me know.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BakPzOLdN6IIjx3jDFyD4Jg01ing1uQ9nIgKFy--7k/edit
>>
>> Options I think we should pass on:
>>
>> * yt-centric tutorial: we will get to the point that I think this is
>> a good idea, but I don't think we'd get enough people signing up for
>> it.
>> * yt-BOF. It might be worthwhile to consider setting up a BOF for
>> data analysis of spatial data, though. (Not just GIS.)
>>
>> I will be submitting a talk about ZeroPy as well.
>>
>> -Matt
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