Python in Science Activities at PyCon 2007

Participants

Please add your name to the list if you will be attending PyCon 2007 and you are interested in participating in Python in Science activities:

• Jeff Rush (engineer/non-scientist)
• Peter Wang (software developer at Enthought, Inc.)
• Travis Oliphant (engineering professor at Brigham Young University)
• Douglas Napoleone (software developer at Nuance Communications Inc.)
• Steve Rogers (engineer at Seagate Technology)
• Maciek Smuga-Otto and Ray Garcia (Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Brian Granger (Tech-X Corporation and IPython(approve sites) project)
• Stephen Pascoe (software developer at British Atmospheric Data Centre)
• Joseph Sheedy (developer from 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group)
• Carl Trachte (geologist for Phelps Dodge Mining Company)
• Steve Waterbury (SW developer at NASA/GSFC)
• Michael Galloy (software developer at Tech-X Corporation)
• James Taylor (Computational Biologist, Courant institute)
• Daniel Stutzbach (engineer/scientist/entrepreneur, owner Stutzbach Enterprises and Adjunct Faculty at SMU)

Suggested Presentations

Briefly describe talks you are interested in giving or talks you would like to see given about Python in Science:

• (Peter) I was going to use one of the Open Talk slots to give an update on Chaco, a plotting application toolkit, but I can give a brief demo here too. There will also be lots of Enthought folks at PyCon, and we are a Python-centric scientific programming company.
• ???

Suggested Activities

• (Travis) I'd like to talk about the array interface PEP
• (Doug) Talk about different approaches to data collection/visualization
• (Brian) Building/Distributing/Packaging python tools for scientific computing.