[AstroPy] Astropy demo presentations.

[Thomas Robitaille]

On 8 August 2013 22:55, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 17:50, Erik Bray <embray at stsci.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> How about we make a reveal.js slideshow version of the What's new
> page, or something similar?

Just to clarify, I meant based on the IPython notebook, of course :)

Tom

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