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

[Nathan Goldbaum]

I'm interested - pending details about location and timing.

Nathan Goldbaum
Graduate Student
Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC
goldbaum at ucolick.org
http://www.ucolick.org/~goldbaum

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Britton Smith wrote:

> 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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