[Phylobase-devl] misc.

Mon Dec 8 20:31:03 CET 2008

Hi, all. It appears that Dec. 18-19 are the only days when everyone  
who has filled out the poll can do the minihack (Thursday and Friday  
of next week). See the poll at <http://www.doodle.com/ 
9pndm3xaszh7gpck>. Shall we thus schedule the minihack for both of  
those days?

Brian

On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Marguerite Butler wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Sorry for the silence. Still teaching my two classes, so I'm pretty  
> tied up.
>
> Basically next week (week of Dec. 15) and week of Jan 13 are the  
> only possibilities for me.  (I'll be spending some much needed time  
> with my daughter over Xmas and then I have to get ready for the  
> SICB meetings in the first week of Jan. (I'm back to work Jan 12,  
> but things will be pretty nuts that day, so Jan 13 is the first day  
> for me).
>
> Mike Alfaro and I are going to be teaching two sessions at SICB, a  
> first day for complete beginners in R and a second evening session  
> o comparative analysis in R, so if there is anything you'd like to  
> show off, please let me know. Hopefully I can get stuff ready in  
> time to get feedback from the developers:).
>
> Feel free to go ahead without me on the Hackathon, though, if my  
> schedule is a problem.
>
> Marguerite
>
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Peter Cowan wrote:
>
>> The list was cc'd, and Steve has already filled out a slot in the
>> 'doodle'.
>>
>> peter
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>>  For what it's worth, Thibaut sent his apologies --
>>> he's going to start a new postdoc very soon.
>>> (I don't remember if he cc'd this list.)
>>> Marguerite, Steve?
>>>
>>>  Ben
>>>
>>> Peter Cowan wrote:
>>>> I've added my schedule to http://www.doodle.com/9pndm3xaszh7gpck
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Brian O'Meara wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Steven Kembel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * chat on the list about a deadline and milestones needed
>>>>>>> for a CRAN release?  (My votes: merged plotting code, all known
>>>>>>> bugs fixed [I don't actually think that would be hard], node-
>>>>>>> labeling
>>>>>>> scheme updated).
>>>>>>> * have one or more additional conference calls?
>>>>>> Discussing this on the list or in a conference call would be
>>>>>> great. I
>>>>>> think we are in pretty good shape for most of these things.
>>>>>> -plotting code should be a straightforward merge of the summer of
>>>>>> code
>>>>>> branch into trunk
>>>>
>>>> Agreed this shouldn't take long and might even happen before the
>>>> virtual hackathon if I can find a few hours to button up loose  
>>>> ends.
>>>>
>>>>>> I will go through the list of bugs/feature requests on R-
>>>>>> Forge and try to clean out the requests that have been dealt
>>>>>> with. If
>>>>>> others have fixed bugs/feature requests go ahead and change their
>>>>>> status to resolved.
>>>>>> -The node-labeling scheme has been updated already unless there
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> further changes needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * an ambitious plan: have a "virtual hackathon" sometime
>>>>>>> between now and mid-January, where we all agree to the best
>>>>>>> of our abilities to spend the same day or two investing
>>>>>>> a significant amount of hacking time ... we could have
>>>>>>> one or two 'plenary sessions' a day and do Skype/chat
>>>>>>> in between ... what do you think?
>>>>>> This sounds like a great idea, I'd be interested, will have some
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> over the 'holidays' to work on this. What are people's schedules
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> - would a brief call sometime in the next few weeks work?
>>>>> I'm generally unconstrained, as we're not traveling for the
>>>>> holidays.
>>>>> We can set up a poll to schedule a conference call once we have a
>>>>> general idea of when people can talk. I've started a poll about a
>>>>> mini-hackathon itself at http://www.doodle.com/9pndm3xaszh7gpck .
>>>>
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>>> -- 
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