Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib and Google Summer of Code

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Nick Barnes <nb...@cl...> wrote:

> May I ask whether matplotlib is taking part in this year's GSoC?  I'm
> canvassing ideas for the Climate Code Foundation's participation, and
> some scientists have suggested matplotlib-related improvements (e.g. a
> GUI tool for constructing and managing segmented colormaps).  Some
> might be specific to climate science, others might be more generally
> useful to other matplotlib users.  In any case, if a student embarked
> on something like that, they'd need to join the matplotlib development
> community as well as ours, so I thought I'd drop by and see whether
> GSoC-sponsored development would be welcome.

They would certainly be welcome. We haven't solicited proposals, but we could mentor one to three students who were interested. A colormap GUI tool would be welcome, but it doesn't sound like an entire summer would be needed, so we might want to bolt on some stuff (like general improvements in mpl widgets and events to support design of such a tool in native mpl rather than, or in addition to, a UI specific tool)

JDH