The coding exercises/examples for the session have all been set up to run in Google Colab. If you haven't used Colab before, it's similar to a Jupyter notebook running within its own virtual machine on the Google servers, hopefully circumventing installation issues!
The notebooks for the unconference session are available from this Google drive folder, with model solutions provided in the examples folder. You'll need to copy these notebooks into your own Google drive before you can make any changes. The first cell of each notebook installs the required software.
The middle hour of each session will be set aside for people to work through these notebooks, whilst unstructured discussion/Q&A take place on BlueJeans and Slack. Please share your progress and results, and please do come back to us with any comments or questions.
The notebooks are geared mostly towards those new to spectral fitting codes, we encourage more advanced users to branch out and pursue their own mini-projects related to the codes and concepts presented in the session, or just see what you can do with Colab if you haven't used it before.
If you'd like to try running the codes and examples on your own machine, please feel free. However, this may require some setup in advance. You'll find installation instructons for Bagpipes and Dense Basis at the links in the left bar. We're happy to help with installation questions via email before or after the sessions.