Assemble tutorial plan, get some feedback

[drphilmarshall]

Two thoughts:

1. The March 2016 meeting tutorials will need a tiny bit of introduction from a session chair, to explain in a few sentences why we are doing them. The CI1 and CI2 tutorials are not until the next day, so they can refer to the tutorials, but not introduce them. The tiny introductions in the tutorial session can help set the tone correctly, by presenting them as professional development opportunities for future (and current) DESC developers (and so should include a reminder that scientists are developers!)
2. It'll be helpful to get some feedback early by showing our sketched out plans to a few targeted people. We could assemble our session plan on a confluence page, and then show a few people the link and invite comment. The rougher this is the better - we want to make sure that we are serving the collaboration well by listening to them about what they need. I started the confluence page here - @richardxdubois could you please check it and then re-assign this issue to a tutor to fill in some very brief details of their plans, based on the discussions in #1, #2 and #3?

[richardxdubois]

I think the tutorial confluence pages would be better off under CI rather than "hidden away" under a collaboration meeting. So for the session page, I'd suggest a short description of each tutorial with links to each individual page (under CI). Then these can be a resource that lives on. So, as you can, @djbard can you fill in descriptions for 1 & 3 and @jchiang87 can you do same for 2 please?

[drphilmarshall]

@djbard @jchiang87 I updated the confluence page for the SLAC 2016 CI tutorials, with my best understanding of what is going to happen. Would you mind please updating it? If you have links to the repos or other websites that you will be using, it would be great to add them.

https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/LSSTDESC/SLAC+2016+-+Computing+Tutorials

We should link this to the meeting agenda page and ask for feedback ASAP. @richardxdubois will you take care of this? Who do you want to run this past? Meetings? Leadership?

[drphilmarshall]

Alright, @jchiang87 - I saw your confluence page at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/LSSTDESC/Developing+DESC+Software and made some additions, feel free to re-edit. I've put a link to it in the agenda for the CI2 meeting tomorrow as well, so we can get some feedback from them.

Should we add a link to the Primes demo repo to the tutorials page at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/LSSTDESC/SLAC+2016+-+Computing+Tutorials as well, so that the audience can look back at what happened? I guess we can do that after the session has finished - but it could be nice for people to follow along in real time. And maybe join in :-)

[jchiang87]

Thanks @drphilmarshall! I saw your edits. I'll keep adding content over the next few days, especially after feedback from tomorrow's practice session. I'll make a Primes_rehearsal repo for tomorrow's session, and then for the actual event, we can post the link to the production version on the tutorial page just before the session so people can play along.

[drphilmarshall]

Cool! Shoudl be fun :-)

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:59 PM, James Chiang notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks @drphilmarshall https://github.com/drphilmarshall! I saw your edits. I'll keep adding content over the next few days, especially after feedback from tomorrow's practice session. I'll make a Primes_rehearsal repo for tomorrow's session, and then for the actual event, we can post the link to the production version on the tutorial page just before the session so people can play along.

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[jchiang87]

@brianv0 Could you have a look at this page https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/LSSTDESC/Developing+DESC+Software ? If you have any suggestions or corrections, they would be most welcome. Thanks!

[djbard]

Attached are slides for the NERSC intro. Happy to hear feedback and requests for clarification. I'll put a full set (of >90 slides) on the confluence site as well. NERSC-intro-short.pdf

[jchiang87]

Here are my slides CollabCoding_tutorial.pdf

Comments welcome!

[richardxdubois]

Tutorials done.