PlasmaPy Workshop at MagNetUS 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023 from 2–5 pm CDT

Mell Classroom Building 3546

Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

We will be holding a workshop on the last day of the MagNetUS 2023 meeting.

Please use this form to sign up for the workshop.

The topics to be covered include:

• Getting started with PlasmaPy (open notebook in Colab)
• astropy.units
• plasmapy.particles
• plasmapy.formulary
• How to contribute to an open source project
• Using git and GitHub
• The code contribution workflow
• Documenting a function
• Testing a function

Preliminaries

Before the tutorial, please:

• Sign up for a free GitHub account
• Add a new SSH key to your GitHub account
• Verify that git is installed by opening a terminal and running git --version

If running Windows, please make sure you have access to a terminal (i.e., by installing Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Optionally, you may also configure git with commands like:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your.email@openmetadatastandards.com"