[Scipy-organizers] Help the Organizing or Program Committees

[Jonathan Rocher]

Hey Chris,

Nice to see you found your way to the mailing list. Welcome and thanks for
offering to help.

Being just sprint co-chair, I will leave it first to Kelsey (conference
chair), Nelle and Serge (program commitee co-chairs) or Jill (global
organization) to provide ideas.

My 2 cents is that I would think you would fit great in support of the GIS
track if there are still needs there. IIRC, I believe that track is chaired
by Chris Barker (NOAA), a fellow from your field. If not/In addition, there
are always things that can be done gathering the meteorological community
you are in to organize a Bird of a Feather to discuss any topic of
important to that community, or to organize a sprint and help push code
forward there. To do that, I would contact other AMS-Python folks and make
SciPy a mid-year gathering of that community. I can help there, and would
contact Scott Collis, Jonathan Helmus, David Brown, Johnny Lin, Charles
Doutriaux, ...

Again, these are my 2 cents, and others know better what pressing needs we
have.

Best,
Jonathan

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:

> Per an HTML formatted email from scipy-organizers at scipy.org on 2/19/2015
> at 6:02 PM ESt:
>
> """
> 3) Help the organizing or program committees:  do you have domain
> expertise in this year's tracks or mini-symposia? Want to give back to
> the community? We still need committee volunteers and program reviewers
> - contact us at scipy-organizers at scipy.org for more details.
> """
>
> I attended SciPy 2014 where I felt, after many years of being bored at
> PyCon, I had found my people.
>
> I attended an event at AMS where Jonathan Rocher encouraged me to
> volunteer for a SciPy program committee. My domain expertise is
> oceanography (and by way of that, somewhat in GIS, visualization, and
> data analysis and management). How can I help?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
> UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
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