August Monthly Update
Stuart Mumford
Hello all,
I know I have not written one of these in a few months, but I am back!
March to July News!
0.7 Released!
At the end of May we released 0.7, which is contains many new features, most notably Python 3 support and the new coordinates module. For more information on 0.7 checkout the release announcement.
The SunPy Gallery
Another big change which happened in tandem with the 0.7 release is a re-working of the SunPy gallery. It is now contained in the main SunPy documentation and is accessible here. The examples are written as Python scripts with lots of comments. We encourage people to add their own scripts to the examples folder in the main SunPy repository.
SunPy at the SPD Meeting
At the SPD meeting in June, we ran two tutorial sessions in the evenings, an introduction to scientific Python and an introduction to SunPy. The materials for both these sessions is in this repository and can be used through this binder.
GSOC and SOCIS Projects
Since the last update SunPy has got three GSOC students and one SOCIS student working on the project for the summer. Check out their blogs here.
Coming up in August
Start of 0.8
Now 0.7 is released, it's time to turn our attention to 0.8. The goal for 0.8 is to get the long running unidown branch merged. As well as add more improvements to Map, Lightcurve and coordinates.
Weekly Community Meetings
The weekly meetings have from the 8th June moved to Wednesdays. They are still at the same time of 1600UTC each Wednesday. We are currently using Jitsi for the meetings rather than Google Hangouts, so each week you can join the meeting by going to https://meet.jit.si/sunpy. These meetings are also lived stream onto the SunPy YouTube channel so people can catch up.
We also now have a Google Calendar to which people can subscribe to see the times of the weekly meetings and other events in your local time zone.
Anybody is welcome to join these meetings to listen in or to ask questions.
Reviewing Pull Requests
As always, reviews on pull requests are always welcome, you don’t have to have merge permissions or anything other than a GitHub account to review PRs. You can find a list of all the PRs that need reviewing here.
Getting in touch
Finally, I wanted to remind everyone about our public communication methods. We have two mailing lists, SunPy and sunpy-dev, the main SunPy list is used for all questions relating to using Python for solar physics and announcements, and the sunpy-dev list is used for developer discussion and organisational emails. We also have the IRC channel (#SunPy on Freenode), which normally has someone hanging out in it, and is an excellent place to get some real-time help, or to just come for a chat. We also have our Google+ page and a Twitter account.
Happy Pythoning,
Stuart