Hi all, I'm writing with some good news -- yt is now funded by the National Science Foundation as a project in its Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program at the Scientific Software Elements (SSE) level! The SI2 program is designed to fund software that promotes scientific goals at multiple levels. The first level, SSE, is for a short period for a very small team, with the explicit goal of enabling that team or project to move forward to subsequent funding to promote the sustainability of the project over the long term. I have accepted a position as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia, funded by this grant. What this means is that my time will be spent working on developing yt in a particular set of goals, many of which align very well with the goals of yt 3.0 and beyond; aspects of this will include codifying the development strategy that we've been pursuing, as well as fostering more community interaction. The grant proposal has been made public here: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.909413 There are three main components, each of which has a set of yearly goals: * Infrastructure * Year 1: Non-Eulerian * Year 2: Non-Cartesian * Year 3: Unstructured Mesh * Interface * Year 1: Data widgets * Year 2: Data hub * Year 3: Outreach hub * Instrumentation * Year 1: Fluid containers * Year 2: In situ library * Year 3: IO library Over the coming months I'll be posting updates on the progress along these goals, but I believe that the "Year 1" goals have already made a considerably amount of progress. These main components will be driving my work over the next few years, which means emphasis on supporting additional codes, data exploration widgets, and supporting simulation infrastructure. A main aspect of the grant, which is noted at some length in the proposal, is to continue developing community around yt -- through running office hours, bootcamps, fostering contributions and continuing to grow the strong community of users and developers we already have. I am proud of the work we've done, and I hope we will continue to grow and flourish as a community. I will be spearheading this, including setting up weekly office hours on G+ Hangouts and pursuing a more directed educational strategy. If you're interested in this, I'll be sending out an invite soon! I am optimistic that this may be a gateway to continue securing funding to for yt, and I am quite excited by the possibilities. I hope you're all having a good semester, and I'm excited to keep working with you all on this. Best, Matt
Congratulations Matt! This is superb news! I promise to buy you a tasty,
possibly coffee-based beverage later today :)
The weekly meetings are a great idea, btw. They have really helped on some
other projects.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Matthew Turk
Hi all,
I'm writing with some good news -- yt is now funded by the National Science Foundation as a project in its Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program at the Scientific Software Elements (SSE) level! The SI2 program is designed to fund software that promotes scientific goals at multiple levels. The first level, SSE, is for a short period for a very small team, with the explicit goal of enabling that team or project to move forward to subsequent funding to promote the sustainability of the project over the long term.
I have accepted a position as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia, funded by this grant. What this means is that my time will be spent working on developing yt in a particular set of goals, many of which align very well with the goals of yt 3.0 and beyond; aspects of this will include codifying the development strategy that we've been pursuing, as well as fostering more community interaction.
The grant proposal has been made public here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.909413
There are three main components, each of which has a set of yearly goals:
* Infrastructure * Year 1: Non-Eulerian * Year 2: Non-Cartesian * Year 3: Unstructured Mesh * Interface * Year 1: Data widgets * Year 2: Data hub * Year 3: Outreach hub * Instrumentation * Year 1: Fluid containers * Year 2: In situ library * Year 3: IO library
Over the coming months I'll be posting updates on the progress along these goals, but I believe that the "Year 1" goals have already made a considerably amount of progress. These main components will be driving my work over the next few years, which means emphasis on supporting additional codes, data exploration widgets, and supporting simulation infrastructure.
A main aspect of the grant, which is noted at some length in the proposal, is to continue developing community around yt -- through running office hours, bootcamps, fostering contributions and continuing to grow the strong community of users and developers we already have. I am proud of the work we've done, and I hope we will continue to grow and flourish as a community. I will be spearheading this, including setting up weekly office hours on G+ Hangouts and pursuing a more directed educational strategy. If you're interested in this, I'll be sending out an invite soon!
I am optimistic that this may be a gateway to continue securing funding to for yt, and I am quite excited by the possibilities.
I hope you're all having a good semester, and I'm excited to keep working with you all on this.
Best,
Matt _______________________________________________ yt-dev mailing list yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
Dear Matt,
Congratulations to all of the yt developers, and to you personally! yt is
an invaluable resource for the astrophysics community -- and, more and
more, to other scientific communities as well. It's wonderful that the NSF
has recognized its impact and has chosen to support it through the SI^2
program. I am incredibly excited to see what will come out of this effort
over the next three years!
Sincerely,
Brian
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Turk
Hi all,
I'm writing with some good news -- yt is now funded by the National Science Foundation as a project in its Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program at the Scientific Software Elements (SSE) level! The SI2 program is designed to fund software that promotes scientific goals at multiple levels. The first level, SSE, is for a short period for a very small team, with the explicit goal of enabling that team or project to move forward to subsequent funding to promote the sustainability of the project over the long term.
I have accepted a position as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia, funded by this grant. What this means is that my time will be spent working on developing yt in a particular set of goals, many of which align very well with the goals of yt 3.0 and beyond; aspects of this will include codifying the development strategy that we've been pursuing, as well as fostering more community interaction.
The grant proposal has been made public here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.909413
There are three main components, each of which has a set of yearly goals:
* Infrastructure * Year 1: Non-Eulerian * Year 2: Non-Cartesian * Year 3: Unstructured Mesh * Interface * Year 1: Data widgets * Year 2: Data hub * Year 3: Outreach hub * Instrumentation * Year 1: Fluid containers * Year 2: In situ library * Year 3: IO library
Over the coming months I'll be posting updates on the progress along these goals, but I believe that the "Year 1" goals have already made a considerably amount of progress. These main components will be driving my work over the next few years, which means emphasis on supporting additional codes, data exploration widgets, and supporting simulation infrastructure.
A main aspect of the grant, which is noted at some length in the proposal, is to continue developing community around yt -- through running office hours, bootcamps, fostering contributions and continuing to grow the strong community of users and developers we already have. I am proud of the work we've done, and I hope we will continue to grow and flourish as a community. I will be spearheading this, including setting up weekly office hours on G+ Hangouts and pursuing a more directed educational strategy. If you're interested in this, I'll be sending out an invite soon!
I am optimistic that this may be a gateway to continue securing funding to for yt, and I am quite excited by the possibilities.
I hope you're all having a good semester, and I'm excited to keep working with you all on this.
Best,
Matt _______________________________________________ yt-dev mailing list yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org
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Anthony Scopatz
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Brian O'Shea
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Matthew Turk