[yt-dev] Good news about a yt grant

[Joseph Smidt]

Yes, congratulations!

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Suoqing Ji <suoqing at physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 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
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