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

Mike Butler butler85 at astro.ufl.edu
Mon Sep 12 12:22:29 PDT 2011


I'm interested, but depends on location/time.

> I'm interested.
>
> -Brian
>
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:34 PM, 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> 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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