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

[Nelle V. <nel...@gm...>]

On 31 July 2013 15:11, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

>  (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).
>

The fact that not all submissions are matplotlib is one of the reasons I
think this should be done in another website.
I've checked out the sources of this github repository. Maybe I can start
from there if you send me the sources!


>  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
>
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