Mailman 3 March 2020 - scikit-image

scikit-image Pacific meeting Mar 30
by Juan Nunez-Iglesias 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear skimagers: Just a few more hours until our next scikit-image Pacific community meeting! The meeting will start at 4:10pm Pacific time on Monday, Mar 30, 2020. (7:10pm US Eastern, 10:10am Tuesday Australian Eastern). Anyone is free to participate at: https://monash.zoom.us/j/284282585 Note that you will be muted by default when joining. You can unmute yourself to say hi. =) If you encounter any issues with the Zoom videoconferencing, you can shout out on our chat room at https://skimage.zulipchat.com The meeting agenda is available for anyone to contribute here: https://hackmd.io/iK8KXbeFRqC7XpZd2Shpmw?both It's a rather small agenda from my end as I haven't had too much time to devote to skimage recently. If you have things you want to discuss in person, now's the time! =) Please do not delete any content you did not write. Treat the document as append-only. Feel free also to use the document to draw our attention to an issue, even if you can't make the meeting. If you're unable to attend the meeting, you can find a summary of the meeting notes later that day at this repo: https://github.com/scikit-image/meeting-notes which also contains notes from the scikit-image Atlantic meetings. See you tomorrow/later today! Juan.

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scikit-image RGSoC 2020
by baraamagdy2004＠gmail.com 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

our team ( Int_Elligence) is interested in applying for the project ‘scikit-image’ for RGSoC 2020. We have a background in Computer Science and programming in Python. we are interested in image processing , can you please tell us how should we start ,and what tasks and features are best suited for us?

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scikit-image RGSoC 2020
by baraamagdy2004＠gmail.com 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

our team ( Int_Elligence) is interested in applying for the project ‘scikit-image’ for RGSoC 2020. We have a background in Computer Science and programming in Python. we are interested in image processing , can you please tell us how should we start ,and what tasks and features are best suited for us?

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Announcing the 2020 John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest
by Nelle Varoquaux 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Dear all, I apologize for the cross-posting. In memory of John Hunter, we are pleased to announce the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest for 2020. This open competition aims to highlight the importance of data visualization to scientific progress and showcase the capabilities of open source software. Participants are invited to submit scientific plots to be judged by a panel. The winning entries will be announced and displayed at SciPy 2020 or announced in the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest website and youtube channel. John Hunter’s family are graciously sponsoring cash prizes for the winners in the following amounts: - 1st prize: $1000 - 2nd prize: $750 - 3rd prize: $500 - Entries must be submitted by June 1st to the form at https://forms.gle/SrexmkDwiAmDc7ej7 - Winners will be announced at Scipy 2020 in Austin, TX or publicly on the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest website and youtube channel - Participants do not need to attend the Scipy conference. - Entries may take the definition of “visualization” rather broadly. Entries may be, for example, a traditional printed plot, an interactive visualization for the web, a dashboard, or an animation. - Source code for the plot must be provided, in the form of Python code and/or a Jupyter notebook, along with a rendering of the plot in a widely used format. The rendering may be, for example, PDF for print, standalone HTML and Javascript for an interactive plot, or MPEG-4 for a video. If the original data can not be shared for reasons of size or licensing, "fake" data may be substituted, along with an image of the plot using real data. - Each entry must include a 300-500 word abstract describing the plot and its importance for a general scientific audience. - Entries will be judged on their clarity, innovation and aesthetics, but most importantly for their effectiveness in communicating a real-world problem. Entrants are encouraged to submit plots that were used during the course of research or work, rather than merely being hypothetical. - SciPy and the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest organizers reserves the right to display any and all entries, whether prize-winning or not, at the conference, use in any materials or on its website, with attribution to the original author(s). - Past entries can be found at https://jhepc.github.io/ - Questions regarding the contest can be sent to jhepc.organizers(a)gmail.com John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest Co-Chairs Madicken Munk Nelle Varoquaux

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scikit-image Pacific meeting
by Juan Nunez-Iglesias 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Dear skimagers: Just a few more hours until our next scikit-image Pacific community meeting! The meeting will start at 4:10pm Pacific time on Monday, Mar 16, 2020. (7:10pm <http://x-apple-data-detectors//1> US Eastern, 10:10am Tuesday Australian Eastern). Anyone is free to participate at: https://monash.zoom.us/j/284282585 Note that you will be muted by default when joining. You can unmute yourself to say hi. =) If you encounter any issues with the Zoom videoconferencing, you can shout out on our chat room at https://skimage.zulipchat.com The meeting agenda is available for anyone to contribute here: _https://hackmd.io/iK8KXbeFRqC7XpZd2Shpmw?both_ Please do not delete any content you did not write. Treat the document as append-only. Feel free also to use the document to draw our attention to an issue, even if you can't make the meeting. If you're unable to attend the meeting, you can find a summary of the meeting notes later that day at this repo: https://github.com/scikit-image/meeting-notes The repo now also contains notes from the scikit-image Atlantic meetings. See you tomorrow! Juan.

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Opportunities for a Scikit image sprint in Japan
by David Cournapeau 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Hi there, My current employer is organizing regular "hack weeks" where engineers can work on the projects of their choice. My team is using a lot of pydata tools, including scikit image, so contributing to it would be natural. Before I decide to add scikit image as a project, I want to make sure it does not create more burden for the maintainers, the goal is to help the project, and for my team's members to help them contributing to OSS in "proper way". I would have time to prepare the hack week, making sure we prepare good PRs. While I never really contributed to the project, I should be able to make sure PRs pass a certain level of quality, but I would need help from one existing maintainer to figure out issues/areas where to focus. Does that sound useful ? The first hack week would be held from 23th to 27th March, in Tokyo. Everybody would be remote because of the coronavirus, so except for time difference, if it makes sense, people outside of my employer could join. regards, David

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IEPF
by Varun Prasad 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

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Freelance IT Engineer
by ashaikfe＠gmail.com 07 Mar '20

07 Mar '20

Wondering, “What is IT Engineering? An information technology (IT) engineer manages computer hardware, software, network, and other applications that are related to computer systems of an organization. IT engineers’ job role varies depending on the organization they work for. They, however, configure, install, troubleshoot, and manage their workplace’s technology and software programs. Engineers will have to work with LANs/WANs/MANs to ensure that these networks meet the requirements of an organization. Read More: https://www.fieldengineer.com/skills/what-is-a-freelance-it-engineer

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plans for scikit-image 1.0
by Juan Nunez-Iglesias 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

Dear scikit-image community, Last week, Stéfan van der Walt, Emmanuelle Gouillart, Alexandre da Siqueira, and I met at UC Berkeley to discuss the future of the library. For part of the meeting, Kira Evans from napari and Tom Caswell and Hannah Aizenmann from Matplotlib were also attending, and provided valuable feedback. Our unstructured notes are available here: https://github.com/scikit-image/meeting-notes/blob/master/2020/2020-02-27--… The short of it is that we agree that it is a good time to aim to make a 1.0 release. As a team, we have developed an increasingly good idea of the pain points of the library, vs the things that work. Additionally, for the next year, thanks to CZI, we have ~1.5 people paid to work on scikit-image, so the hard work of major API restructuring is achievable. Our proposal is that **scikit-image 1.0 will contain breaking changes.** This is because, in many cases in our API, we want to change the return value of a function without changing its signature. This is difficult to achieve with deprecations — it typically involves creating a new, mostly useless keyword argument to signal the new behavior, that later needs to be removed. Additionally, allowing breaking changes will enable us to "clean up shop" and clean up the API a *lot*. So, how will we minimize the impact of this proposal to the community? * this email: we want your feedback on this proposal! Ultimately, this will become a SKIP that will need to be approved by the core developers. https://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/skips/0-skip-process.html In the meantime, nothing is set in stone. * create a transition guide: for every change, analyze how user code could be affected (errors, strange results), and produce an item in the guide for how to transition 0.x code to 1.x code. * extreme communication: we plan to announce our intentions far and wide, including this mailing list, others in the ecosystem, Twitter, and at conferences. For users that just want their code to keep working, pinning to "<1.0" will prevent their code's behavior from changing without warning. * pre-releases: we will make one or more pre-release of 1.0 so that users can test their code before the release comes out officially. * feature parity: we will time 1.0 to be simultaneous with a 0.x release, so that users can keep using the 0.x series without missing out on mission-critical features. In the coming days, I will be creating a few issues related to this proposal on GitHub at https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image, together with a corresponding GitHub Project. You can find all issues related to this transition by using the "1.0" tag. Those will be the right place to discuss specific API changes that we are considering. This thread or the meta-issue on GitHub will be the place to discuss the process of the 1.0 release overall. Questions? Concerns? Write us an email, catch us on Zulip, or comment on related issues on GitHub. Thanks for reading! Juan.

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