Python in HEP - 1st workshop, community activities, training & education
Eduardo Rodrigues
(Apologies for the double posting for many of you.)
Dear all,
At the PyHEP 2018 workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria (https://indico.cern.ch/event/694818/) we had presentations covering the Python ecosystem, LHC analysis, non-LHC experiments, C++ and ROOT bindings, distribution and evolution, and a discussion on education and training. There was interest and consensus on the need to build a community of users and developers of “Python in HEP”. Several actions were pushed forward post-workshop, which may be of interest to you, hence this email.
1) We created a Gitter channel PyHEP to help building a community. It is very informal and eases the sharing of knowledge of the language and interesting packages and tools, techniques, training material, etc. Feel free to check out and join at https://gitter.im/HSF/PyHEP. So far more than 100 messages have been posted.
(You do not even need to sign up to read, and sign in is trivial with a GitHub/GitLab account.)
2) We started a simple repository for “Python in HEP” resources, see https://github.com/hsf-training/PyHEP-resources. You are more than welcome to contribute ... It’s still work in progress but the present status of the resources list makes the repo useful already.
3) Note that this PyHEP-resources repository is hosted under the HSF-training organisation that some of us created too, with the hope that training and education material gets shared across experiment and geography boundaries. For now the LHCb analysis essentials course (recall the LHCb StarterKit) was moved in, since it contains a lot of general material already used by LHCb and ALICE.
4) For information, all presentations of the PyHEP 2018 workshop are available on Zenodo, see https://zenodo.org/communities/pyhep2018. This way all presentations have an attributed DOI and can trivially be cited, effectively replacing proceedings. It’s an easy action to help recognising software oriented work, and citing it.
Bottom line: plenty of reasons to join!
Last but not least: kindly broadcast this information to your experiment’s relevant mailing lists.
Thanks,
Eduardo, Chris Tunnell, Graeme
| Eduardo Rodrigues | University of Cincinnati | LHCb Experiment @ CERN & DIANA/HEP | Tel. +41 (0) 22 76 72097 |
