[Difx-users] {Disarmed} Re: 2020 DiFX mini-workshop series

[Adam Deller]

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On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 12:32, Adam Deller <adeller at astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm happy to announce that the 2020 DiFX users and developers
> mini-workshop series will kick off on Monday November 16 at 2200 UTC.  The
> duration of the meeting will be up to 2 hours maximum, but may conclude a
> little earlier depending on the amount of discussion.
>
> The topic is “Migration from SVN to git: challenges and opportunites”, and
> will consist of a presentation by Greg Lindahl followed by a discussion
> session.   One of the goals of the meeting will be to come to a decision
> about a potential migration of the DiFX codebase to git.  An agenda is on
> https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/nextmeeting; feel
> free to suggest additional agenda items to me, if there are any.  There is
> time penciled in at the end of this workshop for some discussion to help
> set dates and topics for additional mini-workshop sessions in November and
> December.  I'm planning to try to schedule three more mini-workshops
> this year, from the topics listed on the nextmeeting page.
>
> Connection details follow below, and as previously noted the meeting will
> be recorded.  I will distribute a link to the recording afterwards via this
> list.
>
> If you have any questions, please just contact me!
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
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> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 21:59, Adam Deller <adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I hope everyone is coping with the seemingly endless series of curveballs
>> that 2020 has thrown at us.  While international travel is out, we're not
>> going to break a 14 run of annual DiFX meetings, and so I'd like to
>> announce that the 2020 DiFX virtual workshop "mini series" will kick off
>> soon.  These will each be around 1.5-2 hours long and will focus on a
>> single topic of interest, typically with a single presentation followed by
>> discussion.  A current list of suggestions is available at
>> https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/nextmeeting, but
>> please feel free to suggest more to me.  We will rotate the timeslots to
>> more or less share the pain of late nights in local timezones, but meetings
>> will also be recorded and made available afterwards.  I would envisage
>> holding the meetings weekly to fortnightly, enabling us to hold 4 or 5 such
>> mini-workshops before the end of the year.
>>
>> The topic of the first meeting will be “Migration from SVN to git: worth
>> the pain?” (spoiler alert: probably yes), and will feature a presentation
>> by Greg Lindahl.  I would like to propose this for the week of November 16,
>> with a time for this first meeting of 2200UT (with apologies to the
>> Europeans and especially our east Asian colleagues.)  If there are any
>> major activities relevant to this group already happening that week, please
>> let me know, otherwise I will propose Thursday as the day (Friday morning
>> in Asia/Oceania).
>>
>> Apologies for the reasonably short notice, but... 2020.  If you have any
>> suggestions for improvements or additions, or if you'd like to take an
>> active hand in organising the workshop series, please let me know.  I will
>> publish an agenda and connection details once the date and time are fixed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
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>> A/Prof. Adam Deller
>> ARC Future Fellow
>> Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
>> Swinburne University of Technology
>> John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
>> phone: +61 3 9214 5307
>> fax: +61 3 9214 8797
>>
>> office days (usually): Mon-Thu
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>
>
> --
> !=============================================================!
> A/Prof. Adam Deller
> ARC Future Fellow
> Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
> Swinburne University of Technology
> John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
> phone: +61 3 9214 5307
> fax: +61 3 9214 8797
>
> office days (usually): Mon-Thu
> !=============================================================!
>


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A/Prof. Adam Deller
ARC Future Fellow
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
phone: +61 3 9214 5307
fax: +61 3 9214 8797

office days (usually): Mon-Thu
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