On 03/26/2013 11:18 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > 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? Also -- should we set up a shared place (either a git repo or just a wiki page) to collaborate on any of these materials?
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