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[Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kristian Oelgaard
<k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 18:35, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:18:53AM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:43:07AM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>> >> >> Hello,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I have agreed to give a FEniCS Tutorial at ESCO 2010 [0].  If anyone
>>> >> >> is interested and in the area feel free to drop by.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Cool. One thing to consider would be to have a common repository for
>>> >> > tutorial material. I have some slides I can donate if you are
>>> >> > interested.
>>> >>
>>> >> That would be excellent.  Matt and I have a system for our
>>> >> presentations [0] we can model or we could just do like PETSc and put
>>> >> tutorials up on the webpage.
>>> >>
>>> >> -- Andy
>>> >>
>>> >> [0] http://www.bitbucket.org/aterrel/presentations
>>> >
>>> > The slides I have are in the exact same format so it should be easy to
>>> > merge. :-)
>>> >
>>> > Where are the PETSc tutorials? Are they written in HTML? I prefer
>>> > writing in LaTeX.
>>> >
>>>
>>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/tutorials/index.html
>>>
>>> I think most are in latex but in some private repo.  Which is why Matt
>>> and I have the separate reop.
>>
>> ok.
>>
>>> Should we set up another launchpad project or just incorporate it in
>>> the fenics-doc?
>>
>> Don't know. It might clutter up that repo but it would be the easiest
>> option. There's an administrative overhead to creating too many lp
>> groups/projects.
>
> I guess it depends on how it is organised and maintained.
> We could have 'presentations' on the same level as 'demos', 'tutorial'
> and 'programmer's reference'.
> But what I don't want is 200+ tutorials like this:
>
> demonstrating_poisson_at_foo_conference_by_bar_2010_05_15
> demonstrating_poisson_at_foo_conference_by_bar_2010_07_23
> demonstrating_poisson_at_foo_conference_by_bar_2010_07_25
> demonstrating_poisson_at_foo_conference_by_bar_2010_07_26
>
> where 99% of the contents is the same and all the code examples are outdated.
>
> Preferably, we will have a handful of presentations which covers the
> essentials from FEniCS: PDEs, la, mesh etc. with up to date code
> examples. Then if someone needs a presentation, it's just a matter of
> copy/paste with some minor tweaks to direct the presentation towards a
> specific audience.
>
> Kristian


Okay I would be more for a separate repo then.  Tutorials should be
tailored to the audience which by its very nature leads to the
numerous versions.  Matt and I mitigate the out of date bit by having
(almost) every slide be an input.  Then when the slide gets used again
it gets updated.

I guess if there is a good reason to also have an "official"
presentation, then that could be developed in parallel.

-- Andy

>
>> What does Kristian say? Garth?
>>
>> --
>> Anders
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