Hello Steve,
This seems to have slipped through the net. How about this for a news item:
The PSF is pleased to announce that it is 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. This year SciPy India has
over 20 scheduled talks and 30 talks in total which is a 300% increase
on last year.
Michael Foord
On 23/11/2010 03:38, Steve Holden wrote:
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
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