[yt-users] who is interested in a yt workshop?
Britton Smith
brittonsmith at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 20:13:40 PDT 2011
Hi everyone,
There has been some discussion on the developers list about holding a yt
workshop within roughly the next six months. Ideally, this workshop would
have two parts. The first part would focus on education for users, from
basic intro to advanced usage, and perhaps spending time helping users craft
specific analysis routines. The second part would focus on development,
where we discuss new features we would like the code to have as well as
existing parts that are in need of some work, and then we actually get down
to working on these thing and coding. Since one of the main goals of yt is
to blur the lines between user and developer, we would try to aim the end of
the users portion at understanding yt internals and how best to work on the
code. The goal here would be to make a natural transition between the two
parts to maximize the number of people willing to stick around for the
development section.
As it's not yet clear what kind of external funding we can get, we would
like to make this as accessible as possible. This probably means choosing a
city that is a major airport hub, like Chicago, Detroit, etc. The timing
would be sometime early next year, currently anywhere between late January
and say March.
Before any of this can move forward, we really would like to know how many
people are actually interested in such a thing. If you are at all
interested in participating in a yt users/developers workshop, please
respond to this email in at least the following way:
I am [am not] interested in coming to a users workshop.
I am [am not] interested in coming to a developers workshop.
Any and all other comments are also welcome, as to timing, location,
content, etc.
Personally, I think this could really be a great thing, but let's here what
you think.
Britton
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