[yt-users] who is interested in a yt workshop?

[Elizabeth Tasker]

+1 -- Somewhat surprisingly, if you hold it between Jan 9th and Feb 
25th, then I'm likely in too :)



Britton Smith wrote:
> 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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