Re: [eigen] Re: meeting in February?

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keep Dodji and Joel in CC please.

OK so let's now organize the schedule inside of the 3 days.

The first thing that I need to know is when you plan to arrive and
when you leave, everybody? For now, I assume that everybody's here on
Friday morning, OK? Who will still be here on Sunday afternoon?

I exchanged e-mails with Dodji (G++ developer) and Joel (NT2
developer, another c++ library) in order to organize a roughly 2-3
hour session on G++ and general c++ stuff. The main idea is to learn
as much as possible about G++, but not only:
 - 10 minute blitz talk on Eigen by ...who's volunteering?
 - 10 minute blitz talk on NT2 by Joel
 - 30-40 minute talk on G++ by Dodji
 - 1-2 hour discussion

Dodji and Joel can only come on Friday, so the question is: Friday
morning or Friday afternoon? I am unsure about that but I was
thinking: why not friday morning, as 3 hours is exactly the duration
of a morning (ISO norm on mornings), say 9h-12h, and then we can have
lunch together. OK? Then we have the afternoon for Eigen-specific
stuff.

Person-specific questions:
 - Jitse, Mathieu, are you coming? Mathieu, any news from the Lie front?
 - Gael, OK to give a talk on the new class hierarchy / design?
 - Thomas, any update on the meeting rooms?

Some good news from me:
 - my father can probably lend a videoprojector and we have a white
screen at home.
 - my parents will likely be away on vacation on Sunday. So there's
basically only Saturday where it might be best to find another meeting
room.

Benoit


2010/1/12 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> OK, I saw that you added "Block Householder transformations" as a talk
>> topic, I added myself there: I propose to give such a talk if there is
>> demand. It would be very short (like 15 min) and then we should rather
>> have a discussion about how to get that into Eigen.
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> yes I was mostly thinking about a discussion, but of course a short
> presentation is always good to have to get into it
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> gael
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>> OK?
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>> 2010/1/11 Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>>> On Monday 11 January 2010 22:23:35 Benoit Jacob wrote:
>>>> It's actually obvious that out of 3 days it's not too much to take 1
>>>> hour for the NonlinearOptimization module:
>>>>  - we could listen to a short talk
>>>>  - we could discuss the API, the design, how it to make it best fit
>>>> with the rest of Eigen...
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>>>> Rationale:
>>>>  - we want it to eventually become a supported module, right? So we
>>>> should be concerned about it.
>>>>  - there's a whole class of users for whom this will be one of the
>>>> most prominent features.
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>>> Erm...... ok, there seem to be enough demand.
>>> I'll prepare a presentation about the NonLinearModule, how it works, it's API, my concerns and questions, and such.
>>>
>>> ++
>>> Thomas
>>> --
>>> Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> http://www.freehackers.org/thomas
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