Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest on matplotlib website ?

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

(I've Cc'd the scipy organizers list who should probably be able to 
address your questions).

On 07/31/2013 06:09 AM, Nelle Varoquaux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At Scipy, we briefly discussed the possibility of having the nicest 
> plots of the  John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest on 
> matplotlib's website, with the code available.
> I personnally would love to be able to see those plots again, and the 
> code used to generate them. It would also be a great way to advertise 
> the use of matplotlib for high standard plotting.

I submitted this to the scipy papers repository, but I'm not sure where 
that content was posted (or if it has been yet).

https://github.com/scipy/scipy2013_talks

That contains the output of the Sphinx document I used to generate the 
results (and also what I shared with the judges prior to the 
conference).  I can send you the Sphinx source offline.

When we solicited entries, we asked for permission for the Scipy 
conference to use them.  If we want to use them on the matplotlib 
website, I think we'd need to seek permission for that (or we can, of 
course, link to what SciPy posts).  It was done this way because I 
didn't want it to appear to be a matplotlib-based competition (though it 
did turn out that way).

>
> I would love to work on this. I was thinking that the easiest would 
> probably to do a dedicated website, where we could easily upload the 
> code, the data and the images in high resolution. It would also allow 
> us to have a more modern looking website, more "commercial" than the 
> matplotlib one.
> Also, we (matplotlib) do not hold the copyrights but I think scipy or 
> numfocus does. Hence, doing this in the name of scipy (or numfocus) 
> would avoid some legal issues.
> We could then be able to link to this website.

Sure.  What I did is not terribly modern looking -- web design is a set 
of skills I don't really have -- so I'd love it if we could modernize it.

>
> What do you think?
> (We should also include the organizers of the contest in this 
> discussion, but I don't really know how to contact them.)
>
This is a great idea.  I think if there's a subdomain (or url) of 
scipy.org we could use for this to host some static content, that would 
be ideal.  And then we link to it from matplotlib.org.

Mike