Prabhu: I am copying this mail to the web editors list, so that should take care of the news item. I am also copying it to Doug Hellmann. Expect to be contacted by a member of the blogging team in due course.
regards Steve On 11/22/2010 12:12 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > Dear Pat and the PSF board, > > Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship! I will send the > invoice in a couple of days. A news item and blog post would be great > and I will get back on these in a couple of days. The technical program > of the conference is finalized and this year we have over 20 scheduled > talks and 30 talks in total which is a whopping 300% increase since last > year. > > Regards, > Prabhu > > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 02:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote: >> Hi Prabhu Ramachandran: >> This email notification is being sent to you to inform you of the PSF >> Board’s decision to provide funding in the amount of USD 1250 for your >> 2010 SciPy India Conference to be held in Hyderabad between December >> 13th to the 18th. Please see the following board resolution that was >> voted on and passed on November 15, 2010 below: >> >> RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at >> the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December >> 13th to the 18th. >> >> Also, please send an invoice to our Treasurer, Kurt Kaiser, at >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. >> >> If you would like a news item on the python.org <http://python.org/> >> home page or perhaps a blog entry somewhere, please mail your request to >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. >> >> Wishing you much success with SciPy India 2010, >> >> Pat Campbell, Secretary >> >> Python Software Foundation >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear PSF members, >> >> As you know, the SciPy community is a well-established, >> international, and growing group of scientists, engineers, >> mathematicians, and software developers who use Python for >> scientific computing. Our community has formed around various >> software packages including numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. In >> addition to these software libraries, our community has also grown >> as a result of several annual conferences. The first annual SciPy >> conference in the US was held in 2002. More recently, annual SciPy >> conferences have started in both Europe and India. The first annual >> SciPy India conference was held last year in Kerala (http://scipy.in >> <http://scipy.in/>). >> >> This year's SciPy India conference will be held in Hyderabad between >> December 13th to the 18th. The conference consists of two days of >> talks, three days of a combination of morning tutorials and >> afternoon coding sprints, as well as an additional full day of >> sprints. The adoption of Python for scientific programming is not >> as wide-spread in India as it is in the US and Europe. Hence, the >> conference focuses heavily on tutorials and coding sprints. >> >> Since we are targeting students and faculty for the conference, it >> is essential for us to keep the conference costs as low as possible >> for attendees. To that end, most of the conference costs are covered >> by FOSSEE (http://fossee.in <http://fossee.in/>). FOSSEE (Free and >> Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education) is a >> three-year project to enable the students and faculty of Science and >> Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use >> open source software tools for all their computational needs, >> thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning. While >> there are a few other open source tools promoted by FOSSEE, Python >> is a major focus. In addition to this conference, FOSSEE has >> conducted about 20 scientific programming in Python workshops across >> India over the last year alone. >> >> Given that many of the attendees will have little or no previous >> experience with Python, the coding sprints will be structured to >> familiarize participants on using Python as well as on how to >> contribute back to the community. Our plan for the sprints are as >> follows: >> >> * Text book companion: as part of this we will take a popular >> math/physics textbook at the undergraduate level and convert all of >> its worked out examples to use Python and Sage >> (http://www.sagemath.org <http://www.sagemath.org/>). >> >> * Working on improving the documentation for various Python >> packages used for scientific computing. >> >> * Spoken tutorial translation to local languages: FOSSEE has >> generated a reasonable amount of content to promote the use of >> Python for scientific computing. We are currently making this >> material available in the form of screencasts. They are currently >> in English. We will attempt to translate these into screencasts made >> in a few local languages in order to increase the adoption of Python. >> >> * In addition we will have targeted package specific sprints. >> >> >> To ensure that a large number of students and faculty are able to >> participate in the sprints and tutorials, we are subsidizing the >> housing, travel, food, and registration costs. In addition, we are >> hosting several central scientific python contributors including >> Perry Greenfield (numarray/numpy), Fernando Perez (ipython), John >> Hunter (matplotlib), and Stefan van der Walt (numpy/scipy). These >> invited speakers along with the FOSSEE team will focus on directing >> participants to areas they can help, answering questions, and >> reviewing submitted work. We hope to have more than 100 sprint >> participants at various skill levels. We think this number is >> possible because we plan to combine the tutorials with sprints. We >> used this model at the Sage Days 25 conference >> (http://fossee.in/sage_days) with a great deal of success. >> >> We would like the PSF Board to consider partially sponsoring the >> 2010 SciPy India conference. Specifically, we request $2,500 US to >> sponsor the SciPy India sprints, if possible. We would use this >> money towards subsidizing the housing and food of the sprint >> participants, and offset venue and travel costs of the invited >> speakers. >> >> If the PSF provides the sponsorship, we will list the PSF as a >> sponsoring organization on the conference website (http://scipy.in/) >> and recognize the PSF's sponsorship at the conference sessions. >> >> We appreciate your consideration and look forward to partnering with >> the PSF to support this important segment of the Python community. >> >> Sincerely, >> Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman >> SciPy.in 2010 Conference Chairs >> _______________________________________________ >> PSF-Members mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Pat Campbell >> PSF Administrator/Secretary >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Board mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board > -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
