Training Planning Meeting

Monday 16 Dec 2019, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

google doc

Very Brief Meeting 2019-12-15

Present: Adam, James, Graeme

• Survey from Software Carpeneties @CERN available

  • Slides will be attached to the agenda

  • Should think about changes for next event to get the right questions asked

  • Postponed detailed discussion until more people are present

  • Feedback from Carpentries 2 weeks ago (recalled by James):

    • Too many people being taught

    • Rooms changing (and IT Auditorium technical issues) was a problem

    • Timing acknowledged to be off re. what’s covered in practice

• Next event will be 24-27 March

  • We have the KJ Auditorium ~all the 4 days

• Advanced training on Alpaka (generic heterogeneous programming toolkit)

  • 27-30 April

  • 1 day general intro, open to all: https://indico.cern.ch/event/858758/ 

  • 3 days hackathon, 5 small teams by invitation: https://indico.cern.ch/event/867700/ 

• C++ Training

  • Axel Naumann discussed with some interested people connected to C++ standards committee

  • They recognise this as a problem, bringing beginners on from a Python background, but are very far away from solving it

  • They will (are?) work on a document gathering needs and ideas for training

    • C++ as a modern language, not as an add on to C (no new/delete; no printf; RAII; …)

  • Stay in touch with them, but... as a community we should still think about how to develop suitable material

Suggest that next meeting is 13 January

15:30 → 16:00 Discussion

Software Carpentry @ CERN Survey Feedback.pdf