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<div>Suoqing Ji</div>
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<div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div>
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On Aug 11, 2017, 12:37 AM +0800, Cameron Hummels <chummels@gmail.com>, wrote:<br />
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<div dir="ltr">Congratulations to you guys for the award! A great honor!
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<div>Looking forward to making yt more general for a larger audience!<br />
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<div>Cameron</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Turk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 5px 5px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: thin solid #e67e22;">Hi folks,<br />
<br />
We (Nathan, Meagan, Kacper and I) wanted to share some good news.<br />
We've recently received a grant from the NSF SI2 program; NCSA put out<br />
a press release here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/the_yt_project_awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_to_multiple_new_science_domains" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/<wbr />news/story/the_yt_project_<wbr />awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_<wbr />to_multiple_new_science_<wbr />domains</a><br />
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(This includes a link to the full proposal, which goes into some detail.)<br />
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This is a five year grant, supporting part or all of a couple postdocs<br />
(UIUC, Columbia, Wisconsin), a research scientist, some PI time and a<br />
graduate student (along with some workshops). It has a couple areas<br />
of development that we'll be working on. The strictly technical ones<br />
will be related to improving non-spatial indexing, enabling "path"<br />
queries in a more full way (think advanced streamlines) and an<br />
all-new, symbolic field system. In a sense, these are things we're<br />
already kind of familiar with how to work on -- YTEPs, code reivew,<br />
documentation, testing, etc.<br />
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The part that's going to be harder -- from the social perspective --<br />
is that we're going to be working harder to make yt an attractive<br />
analysis and visualization system outside of astronomy, without losing<br />
its attractiveness *within* astronomy.<br />
<br />
This cross-domain effort ties into things like Britton's recent work<br />
on splitting out yt_astro_analysis, and the idea of compartmentalizing<br />
things a bit more within the frontends and whatnot.<br />
<br />
We've identified an advisory board with folks from geophysics,<br />
weather, oceanography, nuclear engineering, plasma physics and<br />
observational astro, and we're going to spin up a couple new mailing<br />
lists for this purpose:<br />
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* yt-advisory: advisory board discussions<br />
* yt-ssi: administrative info for the grant (possibly boring?)<br />
<br />
I'm working to get our lists moved to the <a href="http://yt-project.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">yt-project.org</a> domain before<br />
doing this, though. All of these will be open, although I suspect not<br />
of broad interest (and thus why we're creating new ones.) It might<br />
turn out that domain-specific discussion ends up overwhelming<br />
discussion on yt-dev or yt-users, in which case we can split it out,<br />
but for now yt-dev seems like the right place to put that.<br />
<br />
Anyhow, the main takeaway I want to give from this is: I'm pretty<br />
excited, and I am really, really looking forward to the work we're<br />
going to do with this. We could not have gotten this far without the<br />
amazing community that has grown up around yt. We're going to work on<br />
this project in an open, collaborative way in keeping with the spirit<br />
of what we've done with yt already.<br />
<br />
In the proposal itself, we detail the ways in which we will follow the<br />
standard yt community norms (for design, review, upstream, etc) and<br />
before it was submitted, we discussed it with the yt steering<br />
committee to make sure that the language we included did not sideline<br />
or "squeeze out" anyone in the community. Ensuring that this<br />
*supports*, rather than *detracts from*, the community is absolutely<br />
essential to its success, and we will not be doing anything to<br />
jeopardize that success: this means more effort on yt, but it does not<br />
mean that yt will suddenly become a "professionalized" project that<br />
loses sight of how it got here. And, we would welcome feedback --<br />
especially if it seems that we're missing the mark.<br />
<br />
We're still figuring out how to most effectively do project management<br />
for it, but it's going to all be above board, and we'd absolutely<br />
*love* to collaborate with interested folks on it.<br />
<br />
More soon!<br />
<br />
-Matt & Nathan<br />
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<div>Cameron Hummels
<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">NSF Postdoctoral Fellow</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Department of Astronomy</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">California Institute of Technology</span><br /></div>
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