[python-advocacy] A Call to Arms - Advocating Python in Science

[Jeff Rush]

Emanuele Olivetti wrote:

> Thank you for your advocacy work. I'm a Python enthusiast working
> in computer science area and using numpy, matplotlib etc. for my
> job. What about adding some "numpy/scipy success stories?" to the
> advocacy wiki? I've a little success story and if it can help
> spreading Python I'd be happy to share it.

Emanuele, I would be very glad to see such a story written up.  We can get it 
onto the advocacy site as well as http://www.pythonology.org/python/success. 
The science modules for Python are a real secret weapon for Python that needs 
to have its story told.

We could also use your experience regarding some of the whitepapers.  We have:

"Scientific Computing with Python"
http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyWritingTasks#ScientificPython

and

"The Python Alternative to Matlab"
http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyWritingTasks#ReplaceMatlabWithPython

for which no one has volunteered to at least outline.  Each of those has a 
link from their title to a workspace for jotting down ideas of what to cover. 
  Those who lack the time/energy to write an entire paper are welcome to 
suggest and critique the outlines.

I look forward to your success story and thanks for getting involved,

-Jeff