Hi Dave, On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM, david collins <antpuncher@gmail.com> wrote:
I had two dumb ideas:
Do y'all think it might work as a splinter meeting off the winter AAS workshop? As Britton said, a lot of people might be going to that, and making it a splinter meeting on Sunday not only allow us to save on travel but also get publicity.
Unfortunately, we're a bit too late: http://aas.org/meetings/winter_session_organizer_deadlines.php Although I do agree, it would be nice, even if it is a bit late. (One point twenty one gigawatts?!) The other option if we wanted to emphasize AAS would be to hold it in Austin but somewhere else, although I can't speak to the feasibility of this. We may even overlap with one of the Enthought-sponsored Austin Python User Group meetings. That being said, I'm still rooting for Chicago, even if it's not as feasible. ;-)
I was talking with someone here who went to a numerical workshop, and they handed out thumbdrives with full linux distros on them, so everyone had the same environment. If there's money for something like that, it might be fun to have a full yt stack on thumb drives to minimize the startup cost at the workshop, if we want an interactive portion for new users.
This is a very good idea. Maybe we could try it with Amazon EC2? I have had success building an AMI in the past, and it's very easy to do... although not free, and not local. I do though like the idea of thumb drives... and I can't imagine it wouldn't be an interactive workshop! -Matt
d.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, so it looks at this point like most people on this list are in favor of having a workshop sometime next year and in a place that is cheap for people to get to. As discussed earlier in this thread, it would be good to start this whole thing with a users workshop to get more people involved and to get them turned into developers if we can. I think the next step is to see how interested users would be in attending such a thing. I will do this now and we can pick up again once we see what users are feeling.
Britton
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm also good with Chicago/NY (more towards Chicago). That said, if enough people are going to Austin, would there be any point in tacking on to the end of that? We might be able to pick up more new folks that are around for AAS. Anyways, just a thought. As I said I'm good with pretty much anywhere. Sam
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
Something else to keep in mind. There is probably a nonzero number of people who will be going to AAS, which is January 8-12 in Austin.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk@gmail.com> wrote:
Awesome. Let's try for Chicago, and it sounds like John wants January, which I would actually kind of prefer (Chicago and NYC are both so beautiful in the Winter!) and then everyone else is largely open to. I'll reopen discussions in mid- to late-October, after I take a look at what is available during those periods.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
+1
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:31 PM, david collins <antpuncher@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for Chicago. I haven't had good pizza in forever. > > +1 for NYC for the same reason. > > I'm good for any time in 2012. > > d. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:26 PM, John Wise <jwise@physics.gatech.edu> > wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > > Both cities would work for me. Personally I prefer January because > > I > > don't > > have to teach next semester. > > > > John > > > > On 09/06/2011 01:57 PM, Matthew Turk wrote: > >> > >> Hi Sam, Jeff, Brian, GS et al, > >> > >> I like the idea of an in person workshop in a town with a hub. > >> Chicago would work well for a couple reasons, although I am still > >> trying to see if NYC would be viable. Should we aim to try to do > >> this > >> in the Spring, and then backburner discussion until, say, December > >> or > >> January? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yt-dev mailing list > > Yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org > > http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org > > > > > > -- > Sent from my computer. > _______________________________________________ > Yt-dev mailing list > Yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org > http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
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