SciPy Sprint October 2009

• Date: 24/25 October 2009 (Sat/Sun)
• Find us on: irc.freenode.net in channel #scipy

We've noticed that our patch queue keeps getting longer and longer (code patches as well as docs), so here is an opportunity to do some spring cleaning!

We are looking for volunteers to write documentation, review code, fix bugs or design marketing material. New contributors are most welcome, and mentorship will be available.

Priorities

• Patches ready for review
• Bugs to be fixed
• Documentation

Topics

The sprints will center around these tasks. Format of this list is "task [contact person]".

• Tickets - close as many as possible [stefan, davidc, pauli]
• scikits.image [stefan]
  • See http://stefanv.github.com/scikits.image/contribute.html for a list of tasks.

• Documentation [ralf, davidg, pauli]
  • Finish off / move forward some of the docstrings that require in-depth knowledge of numpy, like: broadcast, newbuffer & friends, ctypeslib, record, ndarray.strides, ufunc, void, distutils
  • Create or review templates for docstrings that are repeatable and have to refer somewhere else like: generic, chararray, ndarray methods
  • Tie up some loose ends that are not discussed in the documentation standard, for example how to document modules.

The above will allow us to switch from writing mode into review + maintenance mode for the NumPy docs, and start focusing more on the SciPy docs.

• Patch review [davidc, toliphant, stefan]
• Marketing
  • Web page renewal [davidwf, jarrod]
    • Getting the current Sphinxified page to a minimum workable state
    • Cookbook, including sources in pydocweb
    • Triage of old wiki pages

Locations

South Africa

• Organizer: Stéfan van der Walt (082-901-6599)
• Location: Media Lab, Stellenbosch University

I (Stefan) will focus mainly on the image processing SciKit?, but please join in no matter what your interest. There are many, many open tickets available, some of them fairly easy to address.

Japan

• Organizer: David Cournapeau

Netherlands

• Ralf Gommers

United States

• David Goldsmith (Olympia, Washington)

Canada

• David Warde-Farley (University of Toronto)

I'll be coordinating, with Jarrod, work on the new SciPy.org web page. Some things I could really use help with:

• Settling on a structure for the major sections/subsections of the new web page.
• Sorting through the autoconverted reST to figure out what we should bring over. This includes manually grabbing images from the wiki as appropriate.
• Fixing up a few errors on numpy.scipy.org
• Getting most of the Cookbook recipes into pydocweb, properly formatted
• Setting up all the appropriate infrastructure for rendering math and matplotlib plots in Sphinx (basically going through the steps at the sampledoc tutorial with the currently checked in Sphinx sources for scipy.org, and then checking them in).

There are also a few things I'd like to get into scikits.image, time permitting. :)