From: Nelle V. <nel...@gm...> - 2013-07-31 15:36:16
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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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > |