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

[Molly Peeples]

I would be interested.

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>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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