[Users] outreach and visibility of the toolkit

[Jens Mahlmann]

Dear all,

regarding the outreach and visibility topic I have one suggestion 
concerning the hurdles of getting started with the Einstein Toolkit. 
Already two times this year I met people who were rather interested in 
the ET but did not know how to get started.

The initial hurdle of starting with the ET could be lowered, if one 
offered for example the contact to a "starting buddy" who agrees to 
Skype for example 2 times 30 minutes with somebody who wants to get 
started and provides appropriate slides/scripts/examples/tasks to kick 
off - also, this might take away the fear to contact the community with 
further questions. Alternatively, in a lighter and more standardized 
version of this, one could offer a monthly Hangout giving a "How to get 
started" presentation and leaving room for Q&A. In any case, I would be 
on board for any of these points.

For tonight my very best from Valencia

Jens Mahlmann


On 10/18/2017 07:37 PM, David Radice wrote:
> Hi Hevli,
>
> let me add, as an example of NS merger simulations done with the ET, our (Princeton/Parma/Frankfurt groups) simulations with the WhiskyTHC code, which includes microphysical nuclear EOS and neutrinos:
>
> 	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhS77N0tyEA
>
> Ref. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02426
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>> On Oct 18, 2017, at 6:38 AM, helvi witek <hwitek at icc.ub.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> let me pick up on our discussion on the visibility of the Einstein Toolkit within the LIGO/VIRGO Scientific collaboration, our scientific community in general and the public that we had during the workshop last week.
>>
>> In the end of the week we are opening our traveling exhibition "Unraveling the dark universe" and, as probably many of you these days, we will have a number of outreach talks about gravitational waves. In this context I was looking for animations produced with the toolkit, in addition to the BBH material that I already had from the SXS collaboration, to give more credit to it.
>>
>> I noticed a few things that we could improve
>> - update the gallery on the website. At the moment the only animation of an event is that by Barry for GW150914. It would be nice to have more of a collection for the other events, and in particular for GW170817. As first step we could collect links to the youtube channels of different groups.
>> - that brings me to a second suggestion: should we bundle those animations, e.g., in a ET youtube channel? At the moment, a quick search leads to filmed talks and lectures (which is important, too, of course), but try the same for SXS and you'll get a list of animations by the collaboration. A first step to give more visibility to the toolkit could be to add the logo to the credits.
>>
>> This is essentially to spark some discussion, and if there is interest, we can follow up on it in one of the next calls.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Helvi
>>
>> ===========================================
>> Dr. Helvi Witek
>> Marie-Curie Research Fellow
>> Dep. Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica & ICCUB
>> Universitat de Barcelona
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