[ This is meant as a heads-up here, please keep the discussion on the SciPy user list so we can focus the conversation in one list only. ] Hi all, Travis Oliphant and myself have signed up to coordinate the tutorials sessions at this year's SciPy conference. Our tentative plan is described here: http://scipy.org/SciPy2008/Tutorials but it basically consists of holding in parallel: 1. A 2-day hands-on tutorial for beginners. 2. A set of 2 or 4 hour sessions on special topics. We need input from people on: - Do you like this idea? - If yes for #1, any suggestions/wishes? Eric Jones, Travis O and myself have all taught similar things and could potentially do it again, but none of us is trying to impose it. If someone else wants to do it, by all means mention it. The job could be split across multiple people once an agenda is organized. - For #2, please go to the wiki and fill in ideas for topics and/or presenters. We'll need a list of viable topics with actual presenters before we start narrowing down the schedule into something more concrete. Feel free to either discuss things here or to just put topics on the wiki. I find wikis to be a poor place for conversation but excellent for summarizing items. I'll try to update the wiki with ideas that arise here, but feel free to directly edit the wiki if you just want to suggest a specific topic or brief piece of info, do NOT feel like you have to vet anything on list. Cheers, Travis and Fernando.
On 5/29/08, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
[ This is meant as a heads-up here, please keep the discussion on the SciPy user list so we can focus the conversation in one list only. ]
Hi all,
Travis Oliphant and myself have signed up to coordinate the tutorials sessions at this year's SciPy conference. Our tentative plan is described here:
http://scipy.org/SciPy2008/Tutorials
but it basically consists of holding in parallel:
1. A 2-day hands-on tutorial for beginners. 2. A set of 2 or 4 hour sessions on special topics.
We need input from people on:
- Do you like this idea?
- If yes for #1, any suggestions/wishes? Eric Jones, Travis O and myself have all taught similar things and could potentially do it again, but none of us is trying to impose it. If someone else wants to do it, by all means mention it. The job could be split across multiple people once an agenda is organized.
- For #2, please go to the wiki and fill in ideas for topics and/or presenters. We'll need a list of viable topics with actual presenters before we start narrowing down the schedule into something more concrete.
Feel free to either discuss things here or to just put topics on the wiki. I find wikis to be a poor place for conversation but excellent for summarizing items. I'll try to update the wiki with ideas that arise here, but feel free to directly edit the wiki if you just want to suggest a specific topic or brief piece of info, do NOT feel like you have to vet anything on list.
Cheers,
Travis and Fernando. _______________________________________________
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Assuming I'm approved by my employer to attend, I could benefit from either the intro or some of the advanced topics. If the mayavi one is for hard core mayavi users, I would probably spend the day doing the intro one. If there are examples that can be followed without being a mayavi wizard, I would probably attend that one. Either way I see it as a win. Thanks for your efforts in getting the conference together. Carl T.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Carl Trachte <ctrachte@gmail.com> wrote:
Assuming I'm approved by my employer to attend, I could benefit from either the intro or some of the advanced topics. If the mayavi one is for hard core mayavi users, I would probably spend the day doing the intro one. If there are examples that can be followed without being a mayavi wizard, I would probably attend that one. Either way I see it as a win.
I suspect the intro one will have some material on using mayavi, perhaps at a more basic level. But someone like myself can easily teach that, while Prabhu or Gael will hopefully be available to teach a deeper one on using TVTK, scripting mayavi, writing custom modules and filters, adding menus to mayavi using the Envisage API, etc. That's the kind of stuff I don't know how to do well enough to teach it.
Thanks for your efforts in getting the conference together.
Glad to help. Cheers, f
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