[Rivet] Rivet dev sprint session

[Andy Buckley]

On 11/10/12 10:17, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thus spake Frank Siegert (frank.siegert at cern.ch):
> 
>> I have to second Hendrik's concern about availability of us Sherpas
>> then. But I had a second thought: Since at least some of us (Andy,
>> Hendrik, myself) are going to be at CERN on Nov 19/20, why not stay
>> for a couple more days for a Rivet sprint?
> 
> phew ... there is still this mail about an LHCb tuning mini-workshop in
> Bucharest on 22-23 November lingering in Andy's and my mailbox, which I
> haven't made my mind up about. I was considering going there from CERN.
> 
> Andy, what are your thoughts/plans for that LHCb meeting?

Hi all,

Sorry for the radio silence: I was zombified by a thrilling
grant-writing session for the last week! Getting back to life now...

I'll get back to you/LHCb on that thread, Hendrik. I think a Rivet
sprint (on both the code and the paper) is a valuable and rarely
available thing, and so my bias would be to stay at CERN with Frank (and
anyone else?) and work on that instead. We do want to support LHCb in
this, though: great that there are people on the expt interested in the
"right" sort of measurement and approach to MC.

David G, since you're not a Sherpa would you be interested in doing a
bit of Rivet/YODA sprint at the start of Nov? Holger was also interested
-- anyone else? A few 2- or 3-day hacking sessions will do us a world of
good, and just being in the same place to identify some of the areas
that we want to complete/improve would be great.

Andy

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