[Scipy-organizers] Happy Thanksgiving! SciPy2014 Summary

[Jonathan Rocher]

Thanks for the update Andy, and congrats for so many achievements already.

Jonathan


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Anthony Scopatz <scopatz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Andy,
>
> Great news about Google!
>
> Be Well
> Anthony
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've been meaning to send this out a for a few weeks, but during that
> > time I've been overly busy.  There has been quite a lot happening with
> > the conference and I wanted to share some of their work.
> >
> > First, I want to say we got a message yesterday that Google will
> > sponsor the meeting. So yay!  This year we do want to highlight the
> > Google Summer of Code's 10th anniversary.  To do that we will have a
> > BoF for all the participants to come discuss (with some goodies from
> > GSOC) and a social event.  I'm very excited about this highlight as I
> > have seen GSOC really help projects in our community explore new
> > features and spring with new life.
> >
> > Our Technical team is underway designing and updating our web
> > presence.  Pretty soon they hope to have something that we can test
> > and get ready for our January call for participation.  To that end we
> > have a new asynchronous method of communication IRC!  Dial into
> > freenode and head over to #scipy-conf for chatting.
> >
> > We are still waiting on replies from our plenaries and hope to have
> > that nailed down by the end of next month.
> >
> > The program committee is still forming, please send them names of
> > anyone you would recommend to be on the committee.
> >
> > The SciPy2013 proceedings have gone online.  I still have to put up
> > the 2011.  Unfortunately 2012 was never reviewed. We are still
> > discussing with the proceedings committee about how to proceed with
> > this.
> >
> > The CSD focus issue call has gone out.  If anyone you know who
> > presented at 2013 and have not received an invitation, please let me
> > know.  For the most part the review and publication will be taken care
> > of by the journal and the focus issue's guest editors.
> >
> > The sponsorship team is working hard but can use any contacts you may
> > have that would be interested in helping the SciPy community.  Please
> > let Brett know.
> >
> > Due to an increase in prices at the center and some doubt that our top
> > donors are returning, we have raised the prices by $75 for the
> > conference.  We are still quite a bit below similar conferences and my
> > hope is that as we find more sponsors we can offer better early bird
> > rates.  The prices will go on the website soon.
> >
> > Okay I think most people are working on getting details ready for the
> > Jan call for participation.  Please let me know if you need any
> > guidance or help getting started.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
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