Hi all, I'm writing with a quick wrapup of the yt workshop we had at UCSC this week, sponsored by UC-HiPACC. All in all, I am extremely pleased with everything that got done. Over the few days, we had a huge number of improvements all over the code base, and I was absolutely delighted by the new contributors and the new improvements. A few highlights: * SPH frontends (Gabriel Altay and Ben Keller) have been vastly improved, including ionization fields and a new system for autodetecting Tipsy frontends (load() now works!) along with domain/endianness detection. * The GPU volume rendering interface (Alex Bogert, John Holdener and Nick Smith) has been well-defined, and will be interoperable with the yt software renderer. * Halo Finder / Analysis (Hilary Egan, Brian Crosby) has been streamlined, the mass function code cleaned up, and the FOF+Rockstar code has been implemented more formally * The NMSU-ART frontend has been cleaned up, double-checked, and particle-type-enabled. (Kenza Arraki) Also, new answer tests! * Software VR has been ripped out and started to be reconstructed (Sam Skillman) with an eye to clarity and simplicity in the interface. * Docs and polish (Nathan Goldbaum) have been worked on a considerable amount -- in fact, the docs now build again for 3.0, and we're getting awfully close to a full set of them that cover the new functionality. * IRATE halo catalogs can now be loaded in and examined (Miguel Rocha), thus furthering the ability of yt to read, write, and analyze halo catalogs as first class datasets. * A new binding-energy check has been started (Andy Elvin) * Boxlib 2D polar has been enabled (Elizabeth Lovegrove) Anyway, it was really fun, productive -- and in many cases, documented! With the docs now building on a regular basis, we'll continue to check things in and update the documentation as new features are added and existing features are polished. Thanks again to Ji-hoon, Miguel, and Nathan for their organization, and thanks to Joel Primack, Sue Grasso and all of UC-HiPACC for their support of the workshop as a whole. -Matt