[Matplotlib-devel] [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: python data vis Slack channels?

[Thomas Caswell]

Did anything come of this?

Tom

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:39 PM Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For what it's worth, there are matplotlib, scipy, and IPython channels on
> the freenode IRC network.  I often answer questions there.
>
> On Monday, May 4, 2015, Bryan Van de Ven <bryanv at continuum.io> wrote:
>
>> We've thought about gitter as well, personally my (slight) preference for
>> Slack is that it does not require a GH account, and also, there is a nice
>> OSS heroku app that provides a really nice "self-invite" button that shows
>> how many users are on, too. You can see it on our test docs deploy:
>>
>>         http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/test/index.html
>>
>> That said it is probably six of one, half dozen of the other. I'm not
>> categorically opposed to looking into gitter some more.
>>
>> My hope (and intent) is really to have this as a place for users to
>> congregate and self-support. We do intend to monitor, to the extent we can,
>> but like you there is precious little bandwidth form core devs.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>> > On May 4, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > That sounds reasonable to me.  My only concern is getting enough (any?)
>> bandwidth from enough of the core mpl developers.
>> >
>> > IPython and scikit image both have gitter rooms running that seem to
>> working well for them as well, is there any reason to go with slack over
>> gitter?
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> > From: Bryan Van de Ven <bryanv at continuum.io>
>> > Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:44 AM
>> > Subject: python data vis Slack channels?
>> > To: Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu>, <tcaswell at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > We have been experimenting/toying with the idea of using a free Slack
>> channel to provide a place for casual Bokeh user interactions. It occurred
>> that it might be nice to have a single "pyvis.slack.com", that has
>> channels for several OSS python vis libraries in one place. Would you have
>> any interest in a #matplotlib channel there? If there is a better place to
>> submit this proposal, please let me know.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Bryan Van de Ven
>> >
>>
>>
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