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

[David Collins]

I'll probably attend as well.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Brian O'Shea <bwoshea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Britton,
>
> To respond to your email:  I am in principle interested in going to both
> workshops, depending heavily on location and timing.
>
> --Brian
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:13 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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