# BACON-PIG Meeting of October 23, 2008

### Coordinates:

[NASA/Goddard Visitor Center](http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html),
Thursday, October 23, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

### Agenda:

  * **Introductions**:  Everyone introduced themselves and described briefly how
    they are using or would like to use [Python](https://python.org).

  * **PyCon 2008 and SciPy 2008**:  Steve Waterbury gave a very brief
    overview of these conventions.

  * **Sensor Observation Service Project**:  Ben Welton, an undergraduate student
    intern at Goddard, presented his project.  He is using Python to develop a
    web service that implements the [Sensor Observation Service (SOS)](
    https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos)
    specification to distribute earth observation data in support of Goddard's
    EO-1 mission.

  * **[Space Telescope Science Institute](https://www.stsci.edu/resources/)**:
    Perry Greenfield described how he and the **Space Telescope Science
    Institute** got involved in helping to enhance and further develop the
    `Numpy and SciPy`_ libraries.

  * **[matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/)**:  Michael Droettboom of the
  **Space Telescope Science Institute** presented the matplotlib_ web site, which
  uses the new [Sphinx](https://sphinx-doc.org/) Python documentation system
  to excellent effect.

  * **Open discussion**:  The group discussed priorities and future meeting plans for
  the **BACON-PIG**.

*[Steve Waterbury](https://pangalactic.us/waterbug.html)*