On 03/26/2013 10:57 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> >> wrote: >>> I'm hoping to host a matplotlib sprint during the final two days of Scipy >>> 2013 this year, and I hope to see as many as possible of you there. I think >>> it's also really important to bring new developers into sprints, because >>> it's such an efficient way to get people familiar with the code base. >>> >>> It might be helpful to start brainstorming now about which projects we may >>> want to tackle so that we can have as much in place as possible by then and >>> hit the ground running. >>> >>> I've set up a wiki page here: >>> >>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 >>> >> Getting a bit back on the original topic of the SciPy sprints, there are >> some things I have learned from last year's sprints. First off, there are >> going to be a lot of newbies there who do not even have a developer setup, >> let alone a source install of matplotlib. Myself and a few other people >> spent several hours fumbling around with getting the Mac users set up >> properly. With me not being a Mac user, I felt very helpless. We need to >> be better prepared for these users (as well as the Windows users). >> >> Second, working on matplotlib isn't very "sexy" (at least, insofar as >> working on ipython, or one of the scikits). Most of the attendees are >> specialized scientists who only cares enough about matplotlib to produce >> "the plot" for their work. Getting attendees to join your sprint is a hard >> sell. This is not meant to discourage you, but rather to help better frame >> what the tasks and goals should be for matplotlib at the sprints. >> >> I wish I was this prepared last year. You are off to a much better start >> than I was. >> >> Cheers! >> Ben Root > Ben, > > This is incredibly useful information. I have never been to a sprint > before so this valuable knowledge to have. Since I'm a mac user, > perhaps I could put together a 'source install walkthrough' or > something? That might help us save some time fumbling at the > beginning of the sprint. > Damon -- I think that would be very helpful. I can do the same for major Linux distros. Sadly,Windows is much more complex and I'm not even terribly up on current best practices there. Any volunteers?
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