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

[Britton Smith]

Hi Marcel,

Thanks for writing back.  This is a good point, though.  I am trying to take
an actual head count here and wish to do as little work as possible, so if
you previously replied to a different thread, please do so again here.

Britton

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Marcel Haas <mhaas at stsci.edu> wrote:

>   I am interested. I indicated this a long time ago, so I thought some
> confirmation would be welcome.
>
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>  Marcel
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>   From: Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Discussion of the yt analysis package <
> yt-users at lists.spacepope.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:34:11 -0400
> To: Discussion of the yt analysis package <yt-users at lists.spacepope.org>
> Subject: Re: [yt-users] who is interested in a yt workshop?
>
>  Hi again everyone,
>
> It seems like there is a decent amount of interest in a yt users/developers
> workshop sometime early in 2010.  It's important to get a good estimate of
> the number of people who might attend.  If you are interested in such a
> workshop as was described in this thread and haven't responded, please do
> so.
>
> Britton
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:48 AM, David Collins <dcollins at physics.ucsd.edu>wrote:
>
>> 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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