Thanks for posting this. I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work.
And I will second your thanks to John Hunter. Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work. I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders. John Khaled Monsoor <k...@kmonsoor.com> writes: > hello everyone in this wonderful community, > > probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about > existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of > relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to > understand nature. > > what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software > components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in > day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, > analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. > Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the > team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] > > i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. > Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source > believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single > contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. > We facilitated something bigger than us. > > i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. > Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with > cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through > 2-D matplotlib plots. > > Thanks everyone. > > Khaled Monsoor, > a common user of Python > > refs: > [1]: > https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux > [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png > [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html > [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
