Thanks! + Next steps post-seminar

[Siddhartha Jana]

All,

I just wanted to thank the team for participating in the PowerStack activities during the seminar and at SC last month. This last seminar, in particular, was quite constructive, in that, it gave the attendees an opportunity to work in small teams on specific topics they were interested in. Unlike past events where we divided the attendees into 3 broad "working groups", this time the teams had very specific concrete topics that align with their personal research / organizational goals. 

On the final day, there was a general consensus to continue working in smaller groups with concrete deliverables in the form of either prototype implementations, documentation, whitepapers, interface definitions, PS use case definitions, etc. We - as a community - have a self-imposed deadline to deliver these by May/April 2020. The plan is to have periodic calls within smaller working groups (4-8 people max) and work on these specific deliverables. The cadence of these calls will depend on the specific tasks being handled by the team. (The calls for the autotuning group has already started) 

During the seminar, we made a list (see below) of the specific topics that most of us would like to work on. The attendees signed up for one or more of these groups based on their interests and work deliverables. We also took the liberty of volunteering some folks who couldn't attend the seminar in person (check to see if you are one of the lucky few)

;-)

## Next steps:## 

(1) Folks who attended the Nov seminar: If you have presentations/slides/notes from our meetup, please upload them on this drive here. I have already uploaded some of your contents - please check to see if that's the latest version. 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aCLyBoQCCj1k9dxKlWztUvBpRhPs8o2n?usp=sharing

(2) All PS members in this forum: Please go through the list of working groups and let us know if you'd like to contribute to any of those that are already listed ... or if you'd like to start a new group and would like to collaborate with.other folks on this list please do so. A reminder - we'd like to keep the teams small for efficiency. Please feel free to contact me and/or the team-leads. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CvkRy837X8yIJnlxMkTe5gGcKpK6lALFXlN5vgwto0/edit?usp=sharing

(3) Please double-check to make sure you are signed up for the google group mailing list (powerstac...@googlegroups.com) and slack (https://powerstack.slack.com/signup). We will be retiring other older lists that this email is copied to. 

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And as always, please feel free to reach out (siddhar...@intel.com)

-- Sid

[Siddhartha Jana]

Typo fixed,

The self-imposed deadline for deliverables by the smaller working groups is Mach/April 2020  (not May/Apr!)

-- S

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:36 AM Siddhartha Jana <siddhart...@gmail.com> wrote:

All,

I just wanted to thank the team for participating in the PowerStack activities during the seminar and at SC last month. This last seminar, in particular, was quite constructive, in that, it gave the attendees an opportunity to work in small teams on specific topics they were interested in. Unlike past events where we divided the attendees into 3 broad "working groups", this time the teams had very specific concrete topics that align with their personal research / organizational goals. 

On the final day, there was a general consensus to continue working in smaller groups with concrete deliverables in the form of either prototype implementations, documentation, whitepapers, interface definitions, PS use case definitions, etc. We - as a community - have a self-imposed deadline to deliver these by **March/April 2020**. The plan is to have periodic calls within smaller working groups (4-8 people max) and work on these specific deliverables. The cadence of these calls will depend on the specific tasks being handled by the team. (The calls for the autotuning group has already started)