[yt-dev] Good news about a yt grant

[Suoqing Ji]

That’s extremely exciting! Congratulations!!

Best wishes,
—
Suoqing Ji
Ph.D Candidate
Department of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://physics.ucsb.edu/~suoqing

On Aug 11, 2017, 12:37 AM +0800, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Congratulations to you guys for the award!  A great honor!
>
> Looking forward to making yt more general for a larger audience!
>
> Cameron
>
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > We (Nathan, Meagan, Kacper and I) wanted to share some good news.
> > > We've recently received a grant from the NSF SI2 program; NCSA put out
> > > a press release here:
> > >
> > > http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/the_yt_project_awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_to_multiple_new_science_domains
> > >
> > > (This includes a link to the full proposal, which goes into some detail.)
> > >
> > > This is a five year grant, supporting part or all of a couple postdocs
> > > (UIUC, Columbia, Wisconsin), a research scientist, some PI time and a
> > > graduate student (along with some workshops).  It has a couple areas
> > > of development that we'll be working on.  The strictly technical ones
> > > will be related to improving non-spatial indexing, enabling "path"
> > > queries in a more full way (think advanced streamlines) and an
> > > all-new, symbolic field system.  In a sense, these are things we're
> > > already kind of familiar with how to work on -- YTEPs, code reivew,
> > > documentation, testing, etc.
> > >
> > > The part that's going to be harder -- from the social perspective --
> > > is that we're going to be working harder to make yt an attractive
> > > analysis and visualization system outside of astronomy, without losing
> > > its attractiveness *within* astronomy.
> > >
> > > This cross-domain effort ties into things like Britton's recent work
> > > on splitting out yt_astro_analysis, and the idea of compartmentalizing
> > > things a bit more within the frontends and whatnot.
> > >
> > > We've identified an advisory board with folks from geophysics,
> > > weather, oceanography, nuclear engineering, plasma physics and
> > > observational astro, and we're going to spin up a couple new mailing
> > > lists for this purpose:
> > >
> > >  * yt-advisory: advisory board discussions
> > >  * yt-ssi: administrative info for the grant (possibly boring?)
> > >
> > > I'm working to get our lists moved to the yt-project.org domain before
> > > doing this, though.  All of these will be open, although I suspect not
> > > of broad interest (and thus why we're creating new ones.)  It might
> > > turn out that domain-specific discussion ends up overwhelming
> > > discussion on yt-dev or yt-users, in which case we can split it out,
> > > but for now yt-dev seems like the right place to put that.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, the main takeaway I want to give from this is: I'm pretty
> > > excited, and I am really, really looking forward to the work we're
> > > going to do with this.  We could not have gotten this far without the
> > > amazing community that has grown up around yt.  We're going to work on
> > > this project in an open, collaborative way in keeping with the spirit
> > > of what we've done with yt already.
> > >
> > > In the proposal itself, we detail the ways in which we will follow the
> > > standard yt community norms (for design, review, upstream, etc) and
> > > before it was submitted, we discussed it with the yt steering
> > > committee to make sure that the language we included did not sideline
> > > or "squeeze out" anyone in the community.  Ensuring that this
> > > *supports*, rather than *detracts from*, the community is absolutely
> > > essential to its success, and we will not be doing anything to
> > > jeopardize that success: this means more effort on yt, but it does not
> > > mean that yt will suddenly become a "professionalized" project that
> > > loses sight of how it got here.  And, we would welcome feedback --
> > > especially if it seems that we're missing the mark.
> > >
> > > We're still figuring out how to most effectively do project management
> > > for it, but it's going to all be above board, and we'd absolutely
> > > *love* to collaborate with interested folks on it.
> > >
> > > More soon!
> > >
> > > -Matt & Nathan
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>
>
> --
> Cameron Hummels
> NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Astronomy
> California Institute of Technology
> http://chummels.org
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