Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. Broadly speaking, the plan is something along the lines of  what we had last year: one continuous 2-day tutorial  aimed at introductory users, starting from the very basics, and in parallel a set of 'advanced' tutorials, consisting of a series of 2-hour sessions on specific  topics. We will request that the presenters for the advanced tutorials keep the 'tutorial' word very much in mind, so that the sessions really contain hands-on learning work and not simply a 2-hour long slide presentation.  We will  thus require that all the tutorials will be _base_d on tools that the attendees can install at least 2 weeks in advance on all  platforms (no I released it last night software). With that in mind, we'd like feedback from all of you on possible topics for the advanced tutorials.  We have space for 8 slots total, and here are in no particular order some possible topics.  At this point there are no guarantees yet that we can get presentations for these, but we'd like to establish a first list of preferred topics to try and secure the presentations as soon as possible. This is simply a list of candiate topics that various people have informally suggested so far: - Mayavi/TVTK - Advanced topics in matplotlib - Statistics with Scipy - The TimeSeries scikit - Designing scientific interfaces with Traits - Advanced numpy - Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy - Structured and record arrays in numpy - Cython - Sage - general tutorial - Sage - specific topics, suggestions welcome - Using GPUs with PyCUDA - Testing strategies for scientific codes - Parallel processing and mpi4py - Graph theory with Networkx - Design patterns for efficient iterator-_base_d scientific codes. - Symbolic computing with sympy We'd like to hear from any ideas on other possible topics of interest, and we'll then run a doodle poll  to gather quantitative feedback with the final list of candidates. Many thanks, f

Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. I hope the above isn't considered too off-topic here: I'm asking for possible Sage tutorials and obviously this group would be the most likely to provide presenters Feel free to provide feedback to me off-list to keep the list traffic on topic to sage-dev. Cheers, f

Hi all, In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get some feedback from you.  This Doodle poll should take no more than a Does you mean people attending scipy09 , or does it mean sage developers, whether or not you are attending scipy09 ? Thanks, Jason

Hi all, In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get some feedback from you.  This Doodle poll should take no more than a Does you mean people attending scipy09 , or does it mean sage developers, whether or not you are attending scipy09 ? Any feedback is welcome, though it seems to make more sense if you're coming to the conference, since the poll is about picking topics for the tutorials sessions. But ideas, feedback, suggestions are in general welcome either via the poll or via list or private email. Since Sage is listed as a candidate topic, votes on a Sage tutorial with comments on specific ideas that someone would be willing to present would be very welcome.  In the end, the actual choices of topics will be determined by what we can get speakers to present, so that kind of information is obviously very relevant. Cheers, f

The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. rather than rehash much here, where it's not easy to paste a table, I've posted a note with the poll results here: http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results... The short and plain-text-friendly version is the final topic ranking: 1       Advanced topics in matplotlib use 2       Advanced numpy 3       Designing scientific interfaces with Traits 4       Mayavi/TVTK 5       Cython 6       Symbolic computing with sympy 7       Statistics with Scipy 8       Using GPUs with PyCUDA 9       Testing strategies for scientific codes 10      Parallel computing in Python and mpi4py 11      Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy 12      Structured and record arrays in numpy 13      Design patterns for efficient iterator-_base_d scientific codes 14      Sage 15      The TimeSeries scikit 16      Hermes: high order Finite Element Methods 17      Graph theory with NetworkX We're currently contacting speakers, and we'll let you know once a final list is made with confirmed speakers. Cheers, f