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Revision as of 00:11, 17 May 2012
OctConf 2012 will bring together users and developers for five days in July in the French Canadian summer.
Please email Jordi (jordigh@octave.org) if you think you could attend. Also write your name below in the Participants section if you think of attending with high probability.
IMPORTANT: In order to give you wireless access during the conference, our host university requires your name and address 3 weeks in advance to the conference date. Email this information to Jordi so he can make arrangements.
Location
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Montréal is lively city with English and French widely spoken plus many other minority languages. Most business can be conducted in either language. It has four large universities, two Anglophones, McGill, Concordia; and two Francophones: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Université de Montréal. The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) is a mathematical centre that brings together researchers from all four universities and many others from Montréal and Canada.
The Montréal summer can be quite hot and humid with some chance of rain. The city has a very serviceable public transportation network of buses and underground trains (metro), so it is convenient to get around without renting a car.
Venue
The CRM will be offering its Université de Montréal facilities for the conference. There is an eponymous metro station that reaches the university.
How to get there
The reference street address is:
Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de Montréal Pavillon André-Aisenstadt 2920 Chemin de la tour, room 5357 Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4
Take your flight to the Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
From the airport, you can either take a cab to any location in the city, which is 40 CAD, or you can take the public 747 express bus, which is 3 CAD. It will take you to the Lionel-Groulx metro station, from which you can continue your travel with the same ticket (it's valid for 2 hours). The metro system is relatively simple to navigate, and bus schedules are posted online and near metro stations.
Starting on Monday, you can get a weekly bus and metro pass for 23.50 CAD. This is highly recommended, as it gives you access to all of the public transportation network within the island of Montréal.
Lodging
There are several hotels and cheaper lodging in Montréal. Additionally, the universities McGill University, Université de Montréal) offer dormitory-style lodgings. The CRM also has more suggestions. Participiants need to make their own lodging arrangements.
Dates
July 16-20, 2012. First two days are intended for newbies and casual users, who may possibly be interested in getting involved in development. Next three days are for code sprints and development. Participants are encouraged to attend for all five days, but may choose only the first two or last three as convenient.
Schedule:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 08:30 | Coffee & croissants | Coffee & croissants | Coffee & croissants | Coffee & croissants | Coffee & croissants |
| 09:00 | Talk — What is Octave? (Jordi) | Talk — Octave's source layout (Jordi) | Talk — State of the Octave (jwe) | Open presentations | Presentation — Cell arrays (Daniel) |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 10:30 | Tour de table and installations | Talk | Talk — Cell arrays (Daniel) | Talk | Talk |
| 11:30 | Tutorial 1: Working the REPL | Tutorial 3: Writing oct files | Open presentations | Open presentations | Open presentations |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Tutorial 2: m-scripts and vectorisation | Tutorial 4: Working with dev tools | Exercises and code sprints | Exercises and code sprints | Exercises and code sprints |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Code sprints | Code sprints | Code sprints | Code sprints | Code sprints |
| 17:00 | Status reports | Status reports | Status reports | Status reports | Status reports |
| 18:00 | Social event |
Some specifics:
Monday
Introductions, "What is Octave?" talk for a general audience (advertise this a lot in the local scientific computing and engineering communities). Helping with Octave installations, presentations about basic Octave use.
Tuesday
More advanced Octave use, including calling Octave from C++ code. Minimum C++ knowledge necessary expounded. How to work with development tools (reading the Octave source code, using Mercurial, bug and patch trackers, mailing lists, IRC).
Social event during evening.
Wednesday
State-of-the-Octave address. Identify problems to work on, pair off and start working on those problems. Code sprints.
Thursday
Reports of results of the previous day. Tech talks if necessary. More code sprints.
Friday
Reports. Last code sprint. Farewells.
Suggestions for Sessions
Code sprints and informal discussion will happen every day. The following are topics of interest for these sessions.
Clean up Bugs
Code sprint to clean up the bug tracker. This would include identifying and closing duplicates, as well as re-qualifying "bugs" that represent feature requests, and closing reports that aren't actually bugs.
Cross-platform FLTK Bugs
Developers using Linux, MacOS, and Windows cooperate to fix FLTK bugs. This represents an important effort toward changing the default graphics toolkit from gnuplot to FLTK. See bugs #31518, #31976, #32134, #32276, #34720.
Code Sprint for the Wiki
Define an effective organizational structure for the new wiki, and clean up the existing content.
- Reorganize existing content to conform the the defined structure.
- Move content to the homepage, OctaveForge, or the documentation.
- Delete spam.
Matlab compatibility
Comparison of functionality between Octave and Matlab (what is the same, what is close, what is either different or significantly slower).
Profiling
Availability and operability of profiling tools for Octave.
GUI(s)
Availability and operability of GUI interfaces to Octave.
64-bit indexing
64-bit indexing for extremely large arrays.
Octave and Octave-Forge
Discussion of what belongs in Octave Core and what is a package or toolbox. Discussion about minimum functionality for Octave Core.
Parallel computing with Octave
Tools available, techniques for parallelisation.
Octave distribution
Making Octave updates trivial for maintenance in large scale computing infrastructures. Octave binary for OS X. What should be included in an all-in-one installer? What versions of OS-X can/should be "supported"? Octave binary for Windows. What should be included in an all-in-one installer? What versions of Windows can/should be "supported".
Participants
- John W. Eaton
- Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
- Joanna Cheng (pending funding and leave)
- Juan Pablo Carbajal User:KaKiLa. Confirmed. Planning trip and hotel.
- Carnë Draug
- Ben Abbott (pending pregnant wife can travel)
- Mohammad Nasiruddin (pending funding)
- Pierre Bellec
- Rik Wehbring
- Thomas Yengst
- Alex Marcotte
- Max Brister
- Israel Herraiz (confirmation pending)
- Nir Krakauer
- Ben Lewis
Funding
There is limited funding to cover the travel expenses of selected participants.