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Add a section 'Astropy is used by' #117
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Maybe we should start collecting a list of them? Some that I know of:
- NASA
- STScI (strictly speaking not the same as NASA)
- CXC/Harvard CfA (@taldcroft might know better what the best name/logo is for this)
- LSST
- the Norway Mapping Authority
- NOAO (I think although I'm not 100% sure)
Perhaps this should also go in a section with "supported by in some manner"? So that would probably be just STScI and CXC?
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?
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?
Reacted by Brigitta SipőczList from a brainstorming session at ADASS:
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) pipeline : https://github.com/STScI-JWST/jwst
- Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) pipeline for EMIR (Infrared MOS) https://github.com/guaix-ucm/pyemir and MEGARA (Optical MOS and IFU) https://github.com/guaix-ucm/megaradrp
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Pipelines (STScI)
- JWST and HST instrumentation support and data analysis efforts
- LSST Science Pipelines (currently for tables and units in tables but see http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2231313 for a future plan)
- JWST-MIRI Simulator : http://www.miricle.org (using io.fits, io.ascii, coordinates, units, modeling, gwcs)
- INAF - DISCOS project in some of the external packages ( https://github.com/discos/basie https://github.com/discos/discos-backend )
- CTA - The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Pipeline framework: https://github.com/cta-observatory/ctapipe
- SimCADO - the MICADO+E-ELT instrument simulator
- Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE - http://cigale.lam.fr/)
- We should scrape github for astropy imports, can do a huge list of organizations
- The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (https://herschellegacyproject.wordpress.com/)
- Tuna - project at LAM, pipeline for reduction of Fabry-Perot interferograms. It uses Astropy for fitting. Also, Tuna was built using Astropy’s guidelines for affiliated packages - it helped me a lot in getting a “best practices” project up and running!
- Gemini data reduction software. Science and Data quality pipeline.
- PyVO - An Interface to the Virtual Observatory using DAL Standards https://github.com/pyvirtobs/pyvo
- MUSE - MPDAF (MUSE Python Data Analysis Framework) http://mpdaf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- AAO - SAMI Galaxy Survey - http://sami-survey.org
- Hubble Frontier Fields
- Hubble RELICS Project
- UTFSM - Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Not all of these need to be mentioned in the proposed page/section, but just wanted to give a more complete list.
Reacted by Grant TremblayWhoa. That's a pretty impressive list.
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:
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.
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.
What about adding a sentence that allows people to contact us to ask for addition/removal of logo?
Reacted by Brigitta Sipőcz, Tom Aldcroft, Grant Tremblay and P. L. Lim2 remaining items
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.
Draft here. Let me know what you think!
When we reach consensus, I'll issue a PR.
Great work Grant. May I make a few suggestions?
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Don't bundle surveys or even instruments together in a bullet point. Hubble should be its own thing, JWST, etc. I would even go as far to list Hubble, JWST, and "other" STScI as three items. I don't think this is unreasonable or unfair padding - they are individually very large and well-funded missions. MaNGA, APOGEE, and eBOSS each have their own logos and can be considered different surveys. I'd even add SDSS on top of those since Astropy is used in SDSS infrastructure.
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You can get the SDSS logo here.
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What do you think of this list more akin to a table view? I was thinking two columns - the logo on the left, the name and description as you have it on the right. I imagine this list growing significantly, and the logos will start to span several lines just by themselves. The table view will associate the description and the logo more strongly.
Reacted by Grant Tremblay-
Thanks Demitri! Nice suggestions. I'll draft up the table idea - more in a bit...
This looks great @granttremblay!
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.
Reacted by Brigitta Sipőcz, Grant Tremblay and Amit Kapadia@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?
Reacted by Tom Aldcroft@eteq @taldcroft Absolutely, will do. I'll wait on #159 and issue a PR incorporating Demitri's suggestions
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.
@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.)
And not to forget the EHT and first black hole image, which got a nice shout-out in the NumPy Nature paper!
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
Reacted by Tom Aldcroft
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.)