PyAOS, Pythia and AMS Python Symposium

[DamienIrving]

At the AMS Annual Meeting this week there was some discussion about the PyAOS, Pythia and AMS Python Symposium initiatives joining forces where possible, given the obvious overlap in audience and aims. I'd love to see this happen, so I thought I'd start a thread on the topic.

From the PyAOS perspective, there's basically six things up at the PyAOS website:

1. Mailing list
2. Summary of the PyAOS stack
3. Software installation guide
4. Package index
5. List of training resources
6. Census

In terms of the PyAOS mailing list, see #208 for a discussion about Pythia/UCAR hosting the list.

The PyAOS stack summary and installation guide content could easily be transitioned/incorporated into Pythia Foundations - see ProjectPythia/pythia-foundations#220.

The PyAOS package index and list of training resources overlaps with the Pythia Resource Gallery, so I raised the idea of a Pythia package index last year (see #129). The Pythia-Education group indicated they weren't yet ready to create and maintain this sort of authoritative index, but were happy to keep the idea/discussion open going forward.

At the end of my PyAOS Census talk at AMS 2022 I raised the idea of a larger annual survey (using the learnings from the first PyAOS census as a guide), a bit like the Stack Overflow Developer Survey but for the PyAOS / Pythia community. I'd be very happy to explore this idea further.

[scollis]

Mainly entering a comment so I get updates.
For one I think the more "pulling in the same direction" the better
for two, the powers that be like to identify "The one thing I can support".. Competition is good, but coalescing around the obvious solution is better

[ktyle]

@DamienIrving I'm going to email you so we (Pythia Outreach Working Group members) can schedule a video chat (at a time that works for you in your time zone 😄 )

[scollis]

Can you include me please

[ktyle]

@scollis will do!