[Scipy-organizers] New landing page for conference.scipy.org

[Andy Ray Terrel]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Rocher <jrocher at enthought.com> wrote:
> Yes Andy, this looks quite nice!
>
> I would suggest one thing: we could recycle our description of one of the
> conferences to describe what all these conferences are at the top of the
> page. Currently, one would have to choose one of the 3 conferences to know
> what they are about. Something like (please adjust number of days based on
> what is true for all 3 conferences):
>
> The annual SciPy Conferences allows participants from academic, commercial,
> and governmental organizations to showcase their latest Scientific Python
> projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code
> development. The conference consists of multiple days of tutorials followed
> by two-three days of presentations, and concludes with 1-2 days developer
> sprints on projects of interest to the attendees. Select one of the
> conferences (USA, Europe, India) to get a more precise feel for what the
> next edition will bring you.

Does every scipy conference follow this format?  I think SciPy
Argentina was just talks.  Will add some flavor text...

>
> And a cool image to go with it goes a long way to get it...

Sounds good. Find an image and I might be able to put it up (please
pay attention to copyright).

>
> My 2 cents,
> Jonathan
>
> Ps The link to SciPy INDIA seems to be wrong or the server is down...

The server is down, I already emailed Prabhu.


>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Jacob Vanderplas
> <jakevdp at cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I love the new look Andy - thanks for putting some work into this.
>>   Jake
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Andy Ray Terrel
>> <andy.terrel at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Not sure if everyone is following along, but there's an effort to have
>> > a better landing page at conference.scipy.org.  (See
>> > https://github.com/scipy-conference/conf_2014/issues/4)
>> >
>> > I would appreciate any feedback on the idea of having a blog for all
>> > the different scipy org communities.
>> >
>> > I've put up: http://conference.scipy.org/new/
>> >
>> > Based on: https://github.com/scipy-conference/conference.scipy.org
>> >
>> > Once I get some feedback I'll move it over.
>> >
>> > -- Andy
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