# DM Boot Camp Announcement **URL:** \ **Category:** DM Notifications\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249 "2015-09-23T01:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/1 "2015-09-23T01:07:49Z")
We will hold a “DM Boot Camp” to introduce new hires and interested users to DM processes and the Science Pipelines stack. ## Dates October 5-7, 2015 ## Sites UW, Tucson, and Princeton, plus remote participants We will try to use BlueJeans for videoconferencing, which can support up to 25 participants. Please try to share connections when possible. To join the meeting on a computer or mobile phone: [https://bluejeans.com/497859855](https://bluejeans.com/497859855) Directly from a room system: 1. Dial: 199.48.152.152 or [bjn.vc](http://bjn.vc) 2. Enter Meeting ID: 497859855 Audio-only via phone: 1. +1.408.740.7256 or +1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free) or +1.408.317.9253 (Alternate number) or +33.4.84.80.12.56 (France) or other numbers from [http://bluejeans.com/numbers](http://bluejeans.com/numbers) 2. Enter Meeting ID: 497859855 ## Participants All available UW and Princeton new hires. DavidN, JonathanS, and AngeloF in Tucson, plus other local users if desired. NateP will travel to Seattle. Hsin-FangC will travel to Princeton. JohnS and LaurenM will provide local instruction at Princeton. RussellO and TimJ will do the same in Tucson. YusraA and SimonK will instruct at UW. Remote participants are welcome, up to the limit of our videoconferencing tools. Local participants from other subsystems are also expected in Tucson. ## Organization Each day will involve a few hours of lectures delivered via videoconference by subject experts. Due to time zones, lectures will be from 10-1 Pacific (1-4 Eastern). We plan to record lectures for future reference and usage. A hands-on tutorial with local instructor(s) will occupy much of the rest of the day (afternoon Pacific, morning Eastern); additional time could be spent on personal projects with assistance from the local tutor(s). We will try to enable inter-site sharing and remote participation in the tutorials, but this may not work well depending on how much preparation we are able to do. ## Agenda Each day’s lectures are scheduled from 10 AM to 1 PM Pacific, 1 PM to 4 PM Eastern. To access the videos linked below, enter “iwillcommentmycode”. - October 5: - _Presentation_ (1 hr): Introduction to LSST and DM: science goals, system description, DM’s mission, data products, processing flows for Level 1 (Alert Production) and Level 2 (Data Release Production), available data processing scripts/Tasks. **MarioJ** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/LSST-DM-Goals-Overview.pptx?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210162) - _Presentation_ (1 hr): Basic `afw` Concepts: `Image`, `Exposure`, `afw.table` from the end user’s perspective and Using the Butler: repositories, mappers, registries. **KTL** , [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/raw/master/pdfs/DM%20Boot%20Camp%20afw%2BButler.pdf?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210169) - _Presentation_ (0.5 hr): Using Tasks: arguments, configuration, retarget/subtasks. **JohnS** , [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/pdfs/Using%20Tasks.pdf?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210163) - _Presentation_ (0.5 hr): Basic `eups` Concepts: products, versions, tags, dependencies. **JohnS** , [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/pdfs/Basic%20EUPS.pdf?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210164) - _Tutorial_: Installing the stack, eups practicalities, using the stack to process data (may incorporate more Day 2 content at UW and Princeton) - October 6: - _Presentation_ (1 hr): DM Organization: DM org chart and people, communication mechanisms, documents, JIRA. **JeffK** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/DM%20Org%20Comms%20Boot%20Camp.pptx?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210165) - _Presentation_ (1 hr): DM Code Structure: overall system structure, available third-party packages and middleware, structure of a package, scons and sconsUtils, SWIG (existence, not detailed usage). **TimJ** , [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/pdfs/code-structure.pdf?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210161) - _Presentation_ (1 hr): `afw`: contents, how to use (images, cameraGeom, detections), common pitfalls (XY0). **SimonK** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/afw_lecture.pptx?raw=true), [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/pdfs/afw_lecture.pdf?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210160) - _Tutorial_: Modifying existing code: JIRA, git, GitHub, eups, lsstsw, scons, doxygen, Jenkins, code review - October 7: - _Presentation_ (1 hr): Detection and Measurement: `meas_base`, `afw.table`, `meas_*`, writing a new measurement plugin. **JimB** , [pdf](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/measurement/measurement/measurement.pdf?raw=true), [figures and iPython notebooks](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/tree/measurement/measurement), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210168) - _Presentation_ (0.5 hr): Orchestration and Control: HTCondor, `ctrl_execute`. **SteveP** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/OrchestrationOct2015.pptx?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210166) - _Presentation_ (0.5 hr): Writing a Task: writing a Config, using subtasks, CmdLineTask/argument parser/TaskRunner. **RussellO** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/writing%20a%20task.pptx?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210167) - _Presentation_ (1 hr): Creating an `obs_*` Package: camera description, configuration overrides, task customizations, mapper policy and subclass. **RussellO** , [pptx](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp/blob/master/documents/creating%20an%20obs%20package.pptx?raw=true), [video](https://vimeo.com/album/3606100/video/142210170) - _Tutorial_: Creating a new package: sconsUtils, .table files, .cfg files, third-party packages, eupspkg, distribution server ---
**Author:** ![jbasney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@jbasney](https://www.rubin.community/u/jbasney)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/2 "2015-10-02T13:53:58Z")
Some of us at NCSA are interested in participating remotely in some of these sessions to become more familiar with LSST Data Management. Is that OK? Are the videoconferencing details available? ---
**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/3 "2015-10-02T15:19:44Z")
> [@jbasney](#): > > Is that OK? Are the videoconferencing details available? Yes, it’s OK, up to the capacity of our videoconferencing. Details will (had better) be available later today. ---
**Author:** ![sjacoby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/sjacoby/32/364_2.png) [@sjacoby](https://www.rubin.community/u/sjacoby)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/4 "2015-10-06T16:51:49Z")
Hello Boot-campers, I’d like to do a blog posting or E-News article about the DM Boot Camp and need a picture. Perhaps I can combine three individual pictures into a triptych of sorts, not sure. But I’ll need a group photo of each location to begin. I’ve arranged for the Tucson photo to be taken right at 10am today, but Princeton and UW, would you please email me a group shot today of your campers? Thank you, Suzanne [I sent this to a few by email but wanted to try making a discussion post as well.] ---
**Author:** ![FabioHernandez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fabiohernandez/32/82_2.png) [@FabioHernandez](https://www.rubin.community/u/FabioHernandez)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/5 "2015-10-06T20:01:03Z")
For those like me looking for the support documents for this boot camp, they are available here: > **[lsst-dm/Oct15\_bootcamp](https://github.com/lsst-dm/Oct15_bootcamp)** > > Repository to hold code for the October 2015 DM bootcamp - lsst-dm/Oct15\_bootcamp ---
**Author:** ![swinbank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/swinbank/32/24_2.png) [@swinbank](https://www.rubin.community/u/swinbank)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/6 "2015-10-06T20:19:52Z")
For the final (October 7) lecture session, we have agreed to schedule a 30 minute break at the two hour mark (ie, after “Writing a Task” and before “Creating an `obs_*` package”). ---
**Author:** ![FabioHernandez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fabiohernandez/32/82_2.png) [@FabioHernandez](https://www.rubin.community/u/FabioHernandez)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:25am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/7 "2015-10-07T10:25:32Z")
Does anyone know the location where the videos of the lectures are being posted? ---
**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/8 "2015-10-07T13:58:59Z")
> [@FabioHernandez](#): > > Does anyone know the location where the videos of the lectures are being posted? We’re still working on editing, reassembling, and uploading them somewhere. (An initial attempt expanded them to \>15GB/day.) ---
**Author:** ![KSK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ksk/32/393_2.png) [@KSK](https://www.rubin.community/u/KSK)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/9 "2015-10-07T21:37:35Z")
For what it’s worth, I fixed my script for the afw talk so it now will increment the frame like I meant it to. ---
**Author:** ![jsick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/jsick/32/672_2.png) [@jsick](https://www.rubin.community/u/jsick)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/10 "2015-10-07T22:30:23Z")
I just want to say _thank you_ to all the speakers. This was fantastically useful for newbies like me. I also think the act of describing and talking about the stack, from a high level, was very useful for thinking about what is needed to improve the stack as a cohesive _thing._ I hope we can regularly do something like this (even if not at such a grand scale) at the all-hands meetings and whenever new functionality/architecture comes into the stack. ---
**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/11 "2015-10-09T03:17:07Z")
I have added links to the presentation slides above. We’re still waiting on video. ---
**Author:** ![timj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/timj/32/10_2.png) [@timj](https://www.rubin.community/u/timj)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/12 "2015-10-10T00:14:58Z")
A [news item](https://project.lsst.org/content/data-management-boot-camp) on the Boot Camp is now available. ---
**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 6:06am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249/13 "2015-10-13T06:06:44Z")
Video links have been added above (thanks, Tim and Frossie!). To access the videos, you need to enter “iwillcommentmycode” (and please (continue to) do so 😄).