imageio progress

[Almar Klein]

Dear all,

Several months ago, I decided to take the code for skimage's freeimage
plugin (which was originally written by Zach Pincus) and turn it into a
stand-alone library. I discussed with Zach and a few others how to proceed
with that, and it seemed that time was a limiting factor for many, so I
ended up doing most coding on my own.

The project is called imageio <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/> and it is
now a plugin-based library with a relatively small core. The freeimage
plugin that started it all currently provides most file formats. Its now at
a stage where I think the core is pretty much finished, and focus can shift
towards different plugins for various scientific formats. But I am not
going to do that alone :)

I could use some help with:
  * People just trying it out.
  * People checking the design of the
classes<http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/classes.html>and
plugin
system <http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/plugins.html>.
  * If possible, people checking out the code a bit.
  * And of course, people writing plugins!

The way I see it, imageio can become a common backend for reading and
writing images for several libraries (including skimage), or can function
stand-alone.

Further, I plan on moving it to github to easier attract developers.

Any help and comments is much appreciated,
  Almar
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