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

[Sam Geen]

Interested, depending on circumstances.

On 12/09/11 20:34, Britton Smith wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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