[AstroPy] Astropy demo presentations.

[Erik Bray]

On 08/07/2013 12:56 PM, Demitri Muna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Leo Singer <lsinger at caltech.edu
> <mailto:lsinger at caltech.edu>> wrote:
>
>> Next week, I am supposed to give a tutorial on Astropy during a 'bootcamp'
>> session of the iPTF workshop
>> (http://ptf.caltech.edu/iptf/iptf_workshop/srk_agenda.html). I am interpreting
>> this as an introduction to Python itself as well. I have half an hour, but I
>> am asking the organizers to extend that to a full hour. Are there any tutorial
>> resources on Astropy that I should know about? My idea was to put together a
>> presentation as an IPython Notebook and go through a few different common data
>> analysis tasks.
>
> This raises a request I was going to bring up. For each major release, can we
> (as a group) put together an Astropy demonstration for each major release? This
> way when there is a new release, people at any institution would have something
> to demo for their department, e.g. at their morning coffee. I think many more
> people will give such a presentation if it exists versus sitting down to write
> one and give it. I'd recommend a five minute version and a half-hour version.
> These should be available coincident with the releases, and highlight the major
> functionality of Astropy. If one has to choose between a full introduction and a
> "what is new since the last release", I'd opt for the former, but both would be
> ideal.

Each new feature release already includes the latter: 
http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.2.html

Though I could see a cumulative guide that's kept up to date (and that 
incorporates examples from the "what's new" page) being useful too.

Erik