In December 2023, sciwork hosted two event series, the weekly meetup and the monthly Scisprint.
A lot of students from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University joined the December meetups to discuss the courses they took and project development. We did preparational work for sciwork 2023 conference and the December Taipei scisprint. We also discussed how to automate the flow for organizing sciwork events and the website deployment.
It has been a while since the last time we held an event outside Taipei. It is encouraging that the December Taipei Scisprint attracted five new friends. Itβs the first time RockLeon hosted a scisprint, and he did an excellent job at the new venue.
We are making good progress with the participating projects. Participants with modmesh successfully installed the code on Windows, showing the capability to deploy on multiple platforms. uTensor has completed a Python wrapper for the C++ runtime using pybind11, which already compiles and works on matrix multiplication.
PyLiteracy fixed a case problem and a logic bug in the Atlas project, and added a new demo program. pydoc-zhtw has started translating many new documents, including pathlib, pickletools, copyreg, io, and base64. We also have started to build Weblate, an open source translation platform to help more people get involved in translation.
This scisprint is also the beginning of the promotional plan for sciwork events in 2024, including discussion of images and scheduling. Our efforts over the past year made the preparation for the event smoother. We are also constantly thinking about ways to further improve the experience of the event and the website. There will be more and better events in the new year.
You can check the event photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sciwork/albums.