[SciPy-Dev] SciPy 1.0 paper writing proposal

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at 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
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