PlasmaPy Summer School 2024

The PlasmaPy community held its inaugural summer school at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. This workshop provided participants with an opportunity to learn how to use PlasmaPy and contribute to an open source software project.

Schedule

Please click here for the schedule for the PlasmaPy summer school, which was held from Monday, July 29 to Thursday, August 1 in 2024.

The summer school covered the following topics:

• PlasmaPy's origin story
• Contributing to an open source project
• Using git and GitHub
• Writing clean code
• astropy.units
• plasmapy.particles, plasmapy.formulary, and plasmapy.dispersion
• Psychological safety and code review
• Writing documentation
• Testing software
• Code contribution tips

The schedule included small group discussions for people at similar career/educational stages, unconference sessions, and time for pair programming or contributing.

Acknowledgments

This summer school was supported by NSF awards 1931388, 1931393, 1931429, and 1931435.