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

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Hello all,

The new site is alive. I'll get the github repo updated tonight as well.

conference.scipy.org

Please report any bug to
https://github.com/scipy-conference/conference.scipy.org

-- Andy

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Rocher, PhD
>> Scientific software developer
>> Enthought, Inc.
>> jrocher at enthought.com
>> 1-512-536-1057
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