Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-08 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/8/12 2:53 AM, Paul Ivanov wrote: > Patrick Marsh, on 2012-02-07 13:58, wrote: >> As I continue to mature as a Python person, I want to give back >> explicitly to the community that's given so much to me. The problem >> is, I don't know how. I'm intimidated by the awesomeness of what I see >>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Ivanov
Patrick Marsh, on 2012-02-07 13:58, wrote: > As I continue to mature as a Python person, I want to give back > explicitly to the community that's given so much to me. The problem > is, I don't know how. I'm intimidated by the awesomeness of what I see > being done around me that I don't even know

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-07 Thread Patrick Marsh
Congratulations, Ben! That's an awesome story! I am by no means at the level of competence that Ben (or Ryan May, another matplotlib contributor and meteorology PhD student at OU) but have been able to turn what I've learned from lurking on the MPL listserv (as well as the Numpy/Scipy listservs)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-07 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ethan Gutmann wrote: > > Also, congrats Ben, both on finishing the PhD and on the job. If you ever > find yourself in Boulder, CO (I'm at NCAR), let me know and I'll buy you a > drink. Indeed, congrats to Ben! And I'm very glad to see your many contributions to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-07 Thread Ethan Gutmann
On Feb 7, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: > I'd like to thank John and Ben for this inspiring posts, which showed > them from a side I've never seen so far. Show your hands if you're > thinking the same. I hope I didn't bore you all :-) Well said Friedrich, though I'm a relative newc

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-07 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
2012/2/7 John Hunter : > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> [...] > > [...] > >> About a week later, I got a personal email from the original poster >> informing me that my solution worked perfectly.  He also noticed that I was >> working in a neighboring building on campus an

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-06 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Alternate title: "How I finally convinced my Dad that open-source can put > food on the table". Since this entire story got started on this mailing > list, I figured it would be appropriate to end it here. Love the alternate title. I'm sure

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-06 Thread C M
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Alternate title: "How I finally convinced my Dad that open-source can put > food on the table". Since this entire story got started on this mailing > list, I figured it would be appropriate to end it here. > Inspiring and uplifting story, Be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Ivanov
Benjamin Root, on 2012-02-06 13:59, wrote: > Alternate title: "How I finally convinced my Dad that open-source can put > food on the table". Since this entire story got started on this mailing > list, I figured it would be appropriate to end it here. > > Last Friday, I signed a contract to begin

[Matplotlib-users] How matplotlib got me a job

2012-02-06 Thread Benjamin Root
Alternate title: "How I finally convinced my Dad that open-source can put food on the table". Since this entire story got started on this mailing list, I figured it would be appropriate to end it here. Last Friday, I signed a contract to begin working as a "Senior Scientific Programmer" for a rese