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Running regular tutorials independent of events #36
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The Dask team has been running regular, community, 90 minutes tutorials since June 2020, and these tutorials appear to have worked well (see dask/community#57). @mrocklin and @jacobtomlinson put together a nice guide on how to run such tutorials: https://blog.dask.org/2020/08/21/running-tutorials.
I am interested in running similar, regular xarray online tutorials. @martindurant and @dcherian generously offered to help out. We are planning on having the first session on Friday October 2nd. As we start getting the content ready, I am wondering if folks who delivered the most recent tutorial at SciPy 2020 would be interested in sharing the feedback they received? We could use the feedback to re-structure the existing tutorial materials so as to cater to different audiences for different tutorial sessions.
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andersy005 commentedon Sep 15, 2020
Also, the existing tutorial materials are geo-science centered, and I am wondering if folks have thoughts on whether it would be useful to have contents that cover other use cases for non-geosciences folks using xarray?
martindurant commentedon Sep 16, 2020
(tagging other scipy 2020 contributors: @jhamman @rabernat @shoyer )
dcherian commentedon Sep 16, 2020
@TomNicholas might has some plasma physics notebooks lying around.
One goal of our CZI funded work is for @rabernat to work on documentation; in part to bring in examples from other domains so everyone is in favour of doing this!
andersy005 commentedon Sep 21, 2020
I created an event on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-online-tutorial-for-xarray-tickets-122003528839. We could use some help from folks with access to
@xarray_dev(Cc @jhamman) and@dask_dev(Cc @mrocklin) twitter accounts to get the word out.The tutorial is scheduled Oct 2, 11am - 1pm (Eastern Time). @martindurant and @dcherian, let me know if this is too early for you, and we can shift it back an hour or two...
rabernat commentedon Sep 21, 2020
This is great! Let's also publicize via Pangeo channels.
andersy005 commentedon Sep 21, 2020
👍 Indeed... Forgot Pangeo has presence on twitter...
martindurant commentedon Sep 21, 2020
The time is fine with me. I tweeted it from dask's account.
dcherian commentedon Sep 21, 2020
Retweeted from xarray's account.
andersy005 commentedon Sep 22, 2020
A big thank you to everyone who helped spread the word! The event sold out in less than 24 hours... I had set the maximum capacity to 150 seats...
jhamman commentedon Sep 22, 2020
Whoops! I just got around to tweeting the announcement from the Xarray account. Should I take it down? Or are you thinking of increasing the maximum capacity?
martindurant commentedon Sep 22, 2020
Sounds like the event will need some repeats. With dask, we found that we exhausted the enthusiasm (for now) in a given timezone after a few events at the same time of day.
andersy005 commentedon Sep 22, 2020
Let's keep it.. I just bumped it to 200. It's likely that some folks won't show up.
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martindurant commentedon Sep 22, 2020
We consistently saw about 50% attendance. That figure could probably be higher, depending on how many reminder emails we got eventbrite to send.
mrocklin commentedon Sep 22, 2020
andersy005 commentedon Oct 6, 2020
Cross posting: dask/dask-blog#72 (comment) here
Last friday's tutorial went so smooth! We had between 80-100 attendees (from 200 registrants).
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this!
mrocklin commentedon Oct 7, 2020