Matthias, Thanks for the thoughtful and complete summary!
Cheers, Brian On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Matthias Bussonnier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > As you might have seen, last week was SciPy2016 in Austin, so most of us > were > overwhelmed during a week, it will take us quite some time to catch up with > the > back-log. If you've asked a question, opened an issue, and still don't have > a > response, it probably slipped through the crack, so as usual feel free to > ping > us after some time, or open a new one ! > > We can and will do better ! If you are a new user looking to start > contributing > a few new issues on IPython and JupyterLab are easy for a beginner and would > have a high impact ! Feel free to come by! > > I feel like I'm seeing more and more answer on the mailing list and on > GitHub > done by many who are not among the main developers. Thanks to all of you who > pitch in on Stack Overflow, Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter and the various > mailing > list, and even to those that do Jupyter Tech Support in person ! We try to > blur > the line between developers and users, and seeing a good chunk of the > knowledge > to be in the community hands is great ! > > Many of side projects I have seen last week are of really good quality and > it > would be worth discussing integrating then into the main repositories by > default. > > SciPy was an extremely extremely useful event, to meet with our user base, > and > even to be able to work with other developers we only have the chance to > meet > every now and then. Thanks to all the sponsors who allowed that to happen. > > I want to send big thanks to all the JupyterLab team who worked hard behind > the > scene, and did a fantastic job before SciPy and an even better one during > SciPy, literally fixing bug and rebasing PRs at the last minutes before the > JupyterLab presentation. > > Afshin, Chris, David, Jason, Steven, Sylvain as well as Ryan who help with > one > of the first JupyterLab plug-in before the Main presentation, and have been > pushing JupyterLab and Phosphor forward for a year now. > > Huge thanks to Brian and the CalPoly folks that are also doing a lot of work > that often does not end up in GitHub metrics. In particular a huge chunk of > SciPy was spent doing user testing on the new JupyterLab, so thanks to: > > Charnpreet, Elliot, Farica, Katie, Matt, Reese, Roshan, Spoorthy, as well as > the ~30 users that gave us some of their time to be guinea pig and tried the > new JupyterLab, while they were recording [they got a new triblend Jupyter > Shirt]. > > We also had various kind of feedback from users, like for example concern > about > wether the notebook format would change (No it will not), and various other > comments and questions we will try to address during the next few weeks > while we > catch up and get through all the notes we have taken. > > If you were there you might have met Ana who took care of the organisation > (we/you wouldn't have Jupyter T-shirt without her), Jamie our project > manager, > who is making sure we keep our head on our shoulders, and Carol our > Documentation grand master. > > Let's not forget Min, who gave a multiple talks on ipyparallel/Dask, Jess > who gave an extremely popular talk about nbflow, and Mike who is slowly > starting > to get up to speed on the project. > > We missed many of you who couldn't made it this year, like Fernando, Thomas, > Kyle, Jon, ... And hope to see you next year. > > Don't forget to subscribe/ check the newsletter, that should get more > information and links soon ! (https://newsletter.jupyter.org/) > > And don't forget to join tomorrow JupyterHub MiniWorkshop: > >> https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub-2016-workshop > > I'm sure I've forgotten something/someone and will realize just after > posting this, apologies if it's the case. > > Thanks to all, > > -- > M > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/797ae351-c395-4431-b08b-bf47e2d26c9a%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Brian E. Granger Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub [email protected] and [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAH4pYpTCYt_m1fcEVCt%3DSd9XFoumR6vZw8po5LZE%3Du9O_RCAiA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
