<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.1">Hello everyone,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This email is going out to all of you individually, but I also wanted to post it directly on </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">pyngl</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-talk as this is very important to </span><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.2" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCAR</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and the</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.3" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> developers in particular. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I apologize in advance, because you may get multiple emails from me. I will be cross-posting to other email lists.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.4" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCAR</span></span><span> </span>is conducting a survey of some of the software packages that it develops and supports---<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.2"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.5" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span>,<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.3"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.6" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">PyNGL</span></span>,<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.4"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.7" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">PyNIO</span></span>, and<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.5"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.8" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">wrf</span></span>-python---along with other related software used in the Earth Sciences. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="gmail-m_3162189645128134951m_-8505616009754876387gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you have already taken the survey you can ignore this email.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default">Your participation in the survey is very important to the future of this software and will be used to help us more closely align development priorities with the requirements of the Earth Sciences community. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">This survey is mainly geared towards<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.7"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.9" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span><span> </span>users, with a secondary focus on Python. If you are not an<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.8"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.10" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span><span> </span>user but are using Python or related software to facilitate your research, your input is still valuable to us. Non<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.9"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.11" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span><span> </span>users will be redirected to different sections in the survey and given a chance to comment on Python and other software.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">A summary of the survey results and an updated software<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.10"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.12" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">roadmap</span></span><span> </span>will be presented to<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.11"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.13" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCAR</span></span><span> </span>upper management and advisory boards, and will be made publicly available on the<span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.12"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.14" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span><span> </span>website (<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.13"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.15" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">ncl</span></span>.<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.14"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.16" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">ucar</span></span>.<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.15"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.17" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">edu</span></span></a>). The actual survey answers will not be made public.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">To take this survey, please use the following link:</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/0NqqllSXKdQK9aKU2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://goo.<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.16"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.18" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">gl</span></span>/forms/0NqqllSXK<wbr>dQK9aKU2</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, feel free to email me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thank you for your time!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">--Mary Haley</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <span> </span><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.17"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.19" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">NCL</span></span><span> </span>Project Lead</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <span> </span><a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.18"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.20" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">haley</span></span>@<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.19"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.21" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">ucar</span></span>.<span id="gmail-m_3162189645128134951:498.20"><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id="gmail-:alc.22" tabindex="-1" style="background:yellow">edu</span></span></a></div><br></div></div>