Re: [matplotlib-devel] scipy conference

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> After a two year hiatus where I inadvertently scheduled my travel
> plans to overlap scipy, I will finally be able to make it to the scipy
> conference this year, and plan to make up for lost time by coming
> early to lead a tutorial on advanced mpl usage, stay through the
> conference, and if any of you are interested, do a sprint.


I am finally able to attend this year! I'm really looking forward to meeting
everyone in person after all these years.



> There are
> lots of interesting things we can work on: refactoring the ticks to
> work nicely with the new spines, pushing forward on the documentation,
> optimizing stuff that is too slow or memory intensive, improving the
> animation API and backend support, gradients, ....
>
> Anyone interested?  And if so, feel free to suggest topics or weigh in
> on some I listed.


There was some discussion about units a while back as well, which might be
worth revisiting.


>
> Also, if any of you will be there early for the tutorials, it would be
> great to have some help  from floaters, people who walk around the
> room and help people who get stuck during the hands-on examples or
> teachers, people who lead part of the tutorial.  In particular,
> Michael could do a segment on transforms and paths, JJ could do a
> segment on all his fancy arrows, boxes, annotations, etc, Andrew on
> his spines, Reinier on mplot3d, etc...  I will probably cover all of
> these even if you can't attend or don't want to teach, but it is best
> ot hear from the experts.  And if anyone not mentioned wants to
> contribute a segment, that would be great -- just let me know what it
> is.  The tutorial is 2 hours and focuses on advanced mpl usage so I
> want to avoid the everyday stuff and focus on transforms, paths, event
> handling, animation, the newer features (spines, fancy*, mplot3d) and
> everything else I am currently forgetting.
>

I could possibly serve as a floater during the mpl tutorial, if you still
need one.

Darren