On 13.02.2016 23:59, Khaled Monsoor wrote: > hello everyone in this wonderful community, > > probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO > <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major > prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge > milestone to human endeavour to understand nature. > > what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of > software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in > day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering > data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. > Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the > team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] > > i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. > Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source > believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor > of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. > We facilitated something bigger than us.
Thank you for sharing this information with us. This is really exciting :-) I took the liberty to use these great news as part of our EuroPython 2016 launch announcement yesterday (which I'll post here as well). > i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. > Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with > cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through > 2-D matplotlib plots. > > > Thanks everyone. > > Khaled Monsoor, > a common user of Python > > > refs: > [1]: > https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux > [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png > [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html > [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Feb 16 2016) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2016-01-19: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.13 ... http://egenix.com/go86 ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
