[CIG-LONG] GALE Workshop planning & VPAC support for GALE

[Bill Appelbe]

Hi all:

We would naturally be pleased to attend such a workshop to provide  
training and support in collaboration with CIG.

We thought that the community interaction and feedback from the  
workshop was great, and as a result there are a couple of initiatives  
we are undertaking:
a)	A code merger of GALE with the current release of StGermain/ 
Underworld
	(we will work with Walter on this), so that GALE can take advantage  
of the
	ongoing improvements and fixes to StGermain/Underworld
b)	An "audit" of StGermain/Underworld (and implicity GALE) with a view  
to
	developing a concrete plan to improve the:
	-	readability, consistency, and style of the C code itself
		and documentation for developers
	-	readability and documentation of the XML input decks for users
	-	a long-term roadmap for both the code and new features
		(e.g., a FEniCS style, or FEniCS integration for HLLs for PDEs
	By audit we mean we will be bringing in some new resources from outside
	the current team to undertake the review that we will resource.
	We welcome the communities input on this and will work closely with
	CIG and make the inputs and results of the audit an open document
	

On 06/04/2009, at 11:36 PM, Dennis Harry wrote:

> Folks, as some of you know, we discussed the idea of a workshop  
> designed
> for GALE users who want to go beyond running the code and perhpas get
> involved in adding new features or modifying the code.  We termed  
> these
> folks user-developers.  Some ideas were tossed out, with none really
> being ideal.  Please "reply to all" indicating your preference re: the
> timing, and also email me the names of others who you think might want
> to be notified of the workshop.  Our intention is the approach NSF for
> funding, so assume the workshop is no cost.  We discussed a 3-day and
> 5-day format.
>
> 1) Would you and/or your students/postdocs be likely to attend such a
> workshop?
> 2) Which of the following meeting times seem best for you: a) Early
> August 2009 if we can move that quickly, b) January 2010, c) summer  
> 2010.
>
> We would prefer to move quickly so that we can start taking  
> advantage of
> the opportunities provided by GALE (which I think we all agree has  
> been
> under-utilized, but please note the new release Walter advertised last
> week).  However, we recognize that a meeting this summer might  
> interfere
> with plans that have already been made.  January is the next choice so
> that we don't miss a lot of class, but that would be close to AGU.
> Which pushes it back to next summer, but most of us interested in GALE
> don't want to wait that long.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> I'd like to wrap this discussion up this week, because Jolante and I
> need to call David Fouintain with a plan very soon if we are to seek  
> NSF
> funding.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- dlh
> --------------------------------------------
>  Dennis L. Harry
>  Edward M. Warner Professor of Geophysics
>  Department of Geosciences
>  Colorado State University
>  Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482
>  phone: (970) 491-2714  fax: (970) 491-6307
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	Cheers -- Bill

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