On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:03:25 +1300, Ralf Gommers wrote:

TL;DR, let's write the long journal paper on SciPy that we've wanted for a
while, let's form a small committee to coordinate, and get it out the door
in 2-3 months.

I'd love to see this realized. Count me in for planning the overall
paper structure, organizing, and writing (perhaps the section on
ndimage, in collaboration with Jaime, Juan, and others?).

Thanks Stefan, and thanks everyone else who volunteered.

Looks like for coordinating we have the following team: Tyler, Josh, Evgeni, Matt, Stefan, Ralf. Let's start a bit of planning and setting up the structure of and build tools for the paper - I'll send out a separate email to you.

FWIW, when we wrote the scikit-image paper we borrowed the build tools
from the SciPy Conference Proceedings, which allowed us to write in ReST
(nice-looking GitHub diffs), and finally converting to LaTeX for the
journal. At work, we've also been using Overleaf (online LaTeX editor)
with good success (the Git commit log may not be as pretty, but it's
very practical if you're willing to skip individual commit reviews).

Good ideas. Either way, we should borrow something rather than start from scratch. Let's decide which one in the coordination committee.

Cheers,
Ralf