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

Cameron Hummels chummels at astro.columbia.edu
Mon Sep 12 12:27:31 PDT 2011


Will be there.

On 9/12/11 3:22 PM, Mike Butler wrote:
> 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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