The Hacker Within
This is a weekly meeting for sharing skills and best practices for scientific computation. Based on The Hacker Within Scientific Computing Group from the University of Wisconsin Madison, Ana Malagon jumpstarted a Yale chapter. The goal is to learn cool skills and incorporate these practices into our workflows. This meeting would be a great venue for introducing new libraries, showing off useful features of a neutronics code you're using, or bringing up a computational problem you're having.
Where:
The restaurant at the end of the universe. ANA_TODO
Who:
Anyone interested in software development best practices is welcome to come to our meetings.
When:
Sundays at midnight. (Just kidding. ANA_TODO). To keep up with meetings, you may want to sign up for the listhost.
How:
Participating is really easy. First, you'll show up. Second, you'll watch a short discussion of some computational topic. To volunteer to give this talk, just let the listhost know by email at local.listhost.url.here. Next, there will be some time devoted to current updates or questions you and other attendees have about your own computational work. Finally, there will be a time for a couple of Lightning Talks, which are 5-10 minute blasts of information about a particular topic or question of interest to the group.
Why:
The tenets of scientiļ¬c endeavor (e.g., data control, reproducibility, comprehensive documentation, and peer review) suffer in projects that fail to make use of current development tools such as unit testing, version control, automated documentation, and others.
To avoid these pitfalls, this weekly meeting exists for sharing skills and best practices for computational scientific applications. This group is modeled after The Hacker Within, which began as a student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now reborn as a collection of such chapters around the world. Each of the chapters convenes a community of scientists, at all levels of their education and training, to share their knowledge and best practices in using computing to accomplish their work.