A sad day for data visuals and python community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

[Thejesh GN]

Hi All,
John Hunter, developer of matplotlib[3] died on August 28 2012 a@
10am, John died from complications arising from cancer treatment at
the University of Chicago hospital, after a brief but intense battle
with this terrible illness. John is survived by his wife Miriam, his
three daughters Rahel, Ava and Clara, his sisters Layne and Mary, and
his mother Sarah

For those who don't know matplotlib[3]:

matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication
quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive
environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python
scripts, the python and ipython shell (ala MATLAB®* or Mathematica®†),
web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits.
matplotlib tries to make easy things easy and hard things possible.
You can generate plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts,
errorcharts, scatterplots, etc, with just a few lines of code.



Its a great open source projects. Friends of John[2] think his family,
specially children need help of community. Please go to donate as
much as possible. Nothing is small. Show we as a community care about
each other.


[1] http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2012-August/010135.html
[2] http://numfocus.org/johnhunter/
[3] http://matplotlib.org/

Thanks and regards,
Thej
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