SciPy 2024
ARC Collaborations Hour
Patrick J. Roddy
2024-08-20
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Conference
Flight
Tacoma
Reasons you may have heard of it:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Toyota Tacoma
10 Things I Hate About You
Sea-Tac Airport
Mount Rainier
Dale Chihuly
Tutorials
Talks
Each day started with a keynote followed by updates from various NumFOCUS libraries, and ended with lightning talks
A mixture of talks and birds of a feather sessions
Everything well timed, with sufficient breaks
Talks were a mix of a library demonstration or someone’s experience with a particular tool
Free stash (I got 5 T-shirts, 2 pairs of socks)
Sponsor standards in the lobby throughout the day
Sprints
Weekend
Maintainers from various NumFOCUS libraries
Worked on NumPy
Many people left by then
Didn’t get as much out of it as I hoped
Euros + Copa America finals
Fatigue
Photos
Holiday: Olympic National Park
National Forest
Hurricane Ridge
Port Angeles
Waterfalls
Beaches
Forks
Hoh Rainforest
Holiday: Seattle
Poo Poo Point
Museum of Flight
Baseball
Tall Buildings
Museum of Glass
Pike Place Market
Conclusions
Thanks for the opportunity
Solo conferencing forces you to talk to people
SciPy community are very friendly
Conference was very well organised (timings of talks etc.)
Made some Connections
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Jet lag isn’t fun
Holidays are great
Would highly recommend Washington state