[Phylobase-devl] misc.

Mon Dec 8 21:15:09 CET 2008

  Yes.

  I was thinking of setting up another time for a preliminary
skype/conference/chat meeting, but that feels like overkill.
Perhaps we can set an agenda/tentative task assignments by
back-and-forth over e-mail.

  cheers
    Ben

Brian O'Meara wrote:
> 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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>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Ben Bolker
>>>> Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida
>>>> bolker at ufl.edu / www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker
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