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

[Matthew Turk]

Hi everyone,

There has been some progress on this front, and we have identified a
venue -- the FLASH center in Chicago has graciously offered to host
us, and we are extremely grateful for their hospitality.  We've
settled on the dates of January 24-26, and we're trying to determine
who is going to be able to attend based on those dates.  If you
expressed interest in this thread you should have received an email
with a link to that form -- even if the answer is no, *please* fill
out the form and let us know if you think you can attend, as it will
affect our attempts to get external funding.

If you didn't express interest before, but have had a change of heart
or just want to emphasize you don't want to come, the form is
available here:

http://goo.gl/xElrB

Thanks very much,

Matt

PS Additional discussion on yt-dev:
http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/2011-September/001571.html

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, the workshop would be in 2012, not 2010, unless anyone has means of
> reaching this epoch.
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> 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>
>> 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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