[SciPy-Dev] Thoughts on creating a toolbox for analysis of nonlinear dynamical system analysis

[Joseph Slater]

> On Mar 24, 2018, at 2:03 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Joseph Slater <joseph.c.slater at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ralf: There was a recent discussion on the frustrations of lack of SciPy contributors- mousai is an example, along with my other projects, some more relevant to potential future inclusion in SciPy, some less.
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> I wouldn't call them frustrations - compared to some years ago we're in pretty good shape. It's also not lack of contributors (200 open PRs currently and ~100 contributors per release), it's lack of maintainers. 
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> Mousai does look like a good start. I'm not a domain expert, but I'm well aware of the limited options in this area. Adding Mousai to https://scipy.org/topical-software.html may be useful to make it more discoverable - I'd be happy to merge a PR at https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org


I've submitted a pull request. 

There is no category for Mechanical/Civil, Aerospace Engineering. May not yet be time, but it might be worthwhile to have a separate category "Engineering: other", or maybe a separate page for engineering focused tools in general. 

I notices xarray and pandas in what I thought were odd locations. I would have put them in a category closer to data frames or database management or such (pandas is listed in economics, xarray in other). Categorizing is almost a futile effort, though, given my past experience maintaining the mactex wiki. 

Best Regards- Joe