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−Hello {{ name }},
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−  The first edition of the Indian version of SciPy conference, dubbed
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−SciPy.in 2009 is just 5 days away. Many of you have shown interests
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−in attending all three events:  conference, tutorials and sprint. But
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−some of you have been asking for a summary of what these individual
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−events will be.
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−
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−   To make things clear, here is a short description of the three
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−individual events. The main SciPy.in 2009 Conference will contain
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−a number of presentations by both noted NumPy/SciPy developers and
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−speakers like Dr.Travis Oliphant, Christopher Burns, Dr. David
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−Cournapeau, Jarrod Millman, Dr.Prabhu Ramachandran as well as other
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−speakers who are using these tools.
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−
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−   The two days of tutorials are aimed at people who want to learn to
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−use NumPy/SciPy for their scientific and numerical computation to
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−solve scientific and engineering problems in their domain. The
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−tutorials will introduce participants to both Python as well as the
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−scientific tool stack built on top of it. The tutorials require basic
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−computer use experience. Bringing your own laptop is helpful, but not
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−required.
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−
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−   Finally, the most exciting part of SciPy.in 2009 are sprints.
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−Sprint provides you with an opportunity to contribute back to the
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−Python scientific computing community. As we know NumPy/SciPy are
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−open source tools and almost all open source softwares are driven by
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−the community. So for these tools to succeed we want help from the
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−community, i.e all of you people. This is an event where all of you
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−sit together along with the developers, hack on one of these tools.
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−If you are one of those guys who is interested in programming you can
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−contribute by writing code, fixing bugs and sending those patches. If
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−you are not interested in programming but more interested in writing,
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−you can help the community with documentation efforts, including but
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−not limited to writing documentation for NumPy/SciPy functions,
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−creating spoken tutorials.
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−
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−   For the sprints it is required for you to bring your own laptops.
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−Your laptop should have a working build system, with NumPy and SciPy
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−built from source if you want to contribute by writing code. If you
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−are willing to contribute to the documentation efforts it is
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−sufficient to have a browser installed with your laptop having the
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−capability of connecting to internet. If you want to create spoken
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−tutorials be sure that you have a mic for recording and any software
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−that can capture your desktop, for example, "istanbul" on GNU/Linux.
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−--
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− Thanks,
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− SciPy.in Organizers