This month I have traveled a bit for scientific-computing related reasons.
First of all, I was speaking at the OKcon, open knowledge conference in London, about Scientific tools in Python in general, and Mayavi in particular. I jumped on the occasion to visit the Airbus campus in Bristol …
We really need to get numpy 1.0.5 out. And for this release to rock, we want to have good docs. This is why Jarrod offered to have a doc sprint tomorrow.
In addition we are currently having a sprint in Paris for neuroimaging in Python, with a bunch …
Many of our users use Windows. I don’t, I use Linux, but I completely respect people’s choice to use the OS they want, as I expect other people to respect my choice. As Prabhu also run Linux (and MacOS X), this means I should sometimes roll up my …
After Debian, Mayavi2 has just made it into Ubuntu Hardy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/science/mayavi2). From what I can see, the deps look just good, thanks a lot to Varun for making sure the Debian package was in shape. This means in April, it will be massively …
Thanks to the combined efforts of Ondrej Certik, who made me do the necessary tarballs, and Varun Hiremath, who finalized the packaging efforts, Mayavi2 is now in Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/mayavi2 ). Currently, it is in testing, but it will soon trickle down to unstable. Along with Mayavi2 …
Thanks to Jarrod Millman, we now have planet.scipy . This means it is time for me to create a blog, on top of my good old static site.
