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Add a section 'Astropy is used by' #117

Open astrofrog opened 8 years ago

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

It would be nice to have somewhere maybe on the front page where we can show organizations that we know use Astropy (e.g. STScI/JWST, etc.)

eteq commented 8 years ago

Maybe we should start collecting a list of them? Some that I know of:

eteq commented 8 years ago

Perhaps this should also go in a section with "supported by in some manner"? So that would probably be just STScI and CXC?

taldcroft commented 8 years ago

I'm not aware of anyone else in the CXC who develops astropy, so the "supported by" statement might be a little thin (though I personally spend most of my science time on Astropy). What is definitely true is that the CXC uses astropy to support spacecraft operations, and Sherpa is now using astropy.

I'm sure there are more projects at CfA. Maybe I should send an email to our pythonusers list asking for funded projects that use astropy? BTW, are we talking core or the Astropy ecosystem?

taldcroft commented 8 years ago

image http://cxc.harvard.edu/symposium_2007/imgs/cxc-logo.gif

bsipocz commented 8 years ago

@eteq - What about Subaru and Gemini?

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

Maybe we could send an email to the list to ask people which pipelines/organizations they know astropy is being used in? (we don't want to know about person X at some institution is using it, but rather that it is being used for official software for the telescope/pipeline/organization, so we would need to make that clear). And we can ask at the same time for permission to include their logo on this page?

demitri commented 7 years ago

I would recommend finer granularity. List the institutions together, sure, but also list individual projects/pipelines. SDSS definitely uses Astropy, but MaNGA, APOGEE, and eBOSS should be listed. JWST and Hubble, for example, should be individually listed in addition to "NASA".

bsipocz commented 7 years ago

Ohh, this was the thread I remembered on twitter, it's great @demitri that you've found it.

astrofrog commented 7 years ago

List from a brainstorming session at ADASS:

eteq commented 7 years ago

Whoa. That's a pretty impressive list.

granttremblay commented 7 years ago

This is a really lovely idea!

Are we thinking something really simple, e.g. a small section at the bottom of the "About" page?

Prototype example:

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granttremblay commented 7 years ago

I should add, given most institutes' branding guidelines, that we'd probably need to ask permission to show their logos. I'm happy to start that process, if we decide to go ahead.

taldcroft commented 7 years ago

Looks great! At the bottom of the About page seems like a fine location.

Not clear how big of a project it is to get permission for all the logo's, so I wonder in the short term if the simple bulleted list of institutions would be a good start. This could be preceded by some disclaimer that this does not imply institutional endorsement of the Astropy project, merely that the project is known to use astropy in their code.

For kicks I started looking at the Harvard regulations for branding and immediately got annoyed and bored at the legalese. But probably this is pretty much worst-case in that regard.

astrofrog commented 7 years ago

What about adding a sentence that allows people to contact us to ask for addition/removal of logo?

granttremblay commented 7 years ago

That would be way easier, @astrofrog. Better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. Anyone actively against a simple disclaimer that combines the suggestions by @astrofrog and @taldcroft ?

While we await consensus re: logo permissions, I'll draft up the new section with a (temporary?) disclaimer and issue a PR for review.

kelle commented 7 years ago

+1 for forgiveness > permission and a small, simple disclaimer.

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demitri commented 7 years ago

Use the logos; don't ask for permission. It's not illegal to use a company's/institutions's logo. They are public entities. It is illegal to use it in a manner that suggests that they endorse or represent the service or product. The wording at the top of the page should make this clear.

The branding guidelines that you find are mostly written to dictate how the logo is used on the company's/institution's own materials, e.g. packaging, web site, letterhead, etc. Most of the time this is not available on a web page since it's not intended for external users.

If a particular institution objects to the use of their logo on the page, they will have their coterie of lawyers send an email requesting it be removed. In that event we remove it, and the matter ends there. Don't put any message about how to request to remove the logo - trust me, they will know who to contact. No disclaimer is needed as long as it's made clear that the institutions are not being presented as endorsing or having ownership of Astropy, and I doubt that one could construe that from the web page.

granttremblay commented 7 years ago

Draft here. Let me know what you think!

When we reach consensus, I'll issue a PR.

demitri commented 7 years ago

Great work Grant. May I make a few suggestions?

granttremblay commented 7 years ago

Thanks Demitri! Nice suggestions. I'll draft up the table idea - more in a bit...

eteq commented 7 years ago

This looks great @granttremblay!

kjordahl commented 7 years ago

We use astropy internally at Planet Labs. Not because we are doing astronomy (though we are imaging the Earth from space), but because the NaN treatment in astropy.convolution.convolve() is so good.

eteq commented 7 years ago

@granttremblay - @taldcroft and I we were just thinking about this and realized we left this pretty much at "it's basically done". Any chance you can finish this up as a PR?

eteq commented 7 years ago

(although it may be good to wait on #159 ?)

granttremblay commented 7 years ago

@eteq @taldcroft Absolutely, will do. I'll wait on #159 and issue a PR incorporating Demitri's suggestions

granttremblay commented 6 years ago

This was first proposed back in 2016, so its high time I actually implement this. ;)

My apologies for the endless delay - will put something together (like the above, with the requested changes) and issue a PR.

bsipocz commented 6 years ago

@granttremblay - I have a WIP project that looks into usage stats, so let me know if there are concrete questions to look for (e.g. github username for orgs to look into, etc.)

astrofrog commented 3 years ago

IBM: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-to-open-source-space-junk-collision-avoidance/ (code: https://github.com/IBM/spacetech-ssa)

taldcroft commented 3 years ago

And not to forget the EHT and first black hole image, which got a nice shout-out in the NumPy Nature paper!

hamogu commented 3 years ago

I'm also a big fan of the "survey endangered animals with drones": https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2018/4/4/astro-ecology

pllim commented 3 years ago

For sure, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use astropy too.

Didn't @bsipocz also mention Netflix at one point? 😸