From 250bf249929f04269c753f1fcb89444e3b7f87a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Hoese Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 09:20:47 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add history of pytroll page --- history.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ index.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 history.md diff --git a/history.md b/history.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24ed96a --- /dev/null +++ b/history.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: History of Pytroll +--- + +The open source collaboration that became Pytroll started in 2009 by a handful +of developers at the Danish Met Service (DMI) and SMHI including current +maintainers Martin Raspaud and Adam Dybbroe. We realized that we had a lot in +common. We all liked Python and were solving or wanted to solve a lot of +similar problems. There was also a desire to get rid of ill-suited proprietary +software in our satellite data production systems. At some point around 2010 +the effort had grown big enough that we felt it needed a name. The "troll" in +Pytroll hints at the Nordic/Scandinavian heritage. Soon after colleagues at +FMI (the Finnish Met Service) and the Icelandic Met Service joined. The name +was not liked equally by all of us, but it was the best we could come up with. + +Now we are stuck with it. 😀 diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index cb69207..1f28048 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -81,5 +81,6 @@ at the [Workshops](./workshops/index.md) page. ## Other Links +- [History](history.md) - [Logos](logos/index.md) From 5e387e5bd3dbc2c0cf68113a17a2b7d626e0d750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Raspaud Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:23:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Update history.md --- history.md | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/history.md b/history.md index 24ed96a..a4ebc40 100644 --- a/history.md +++ b/history.md @@ -9,8 +9,19 @@ common. We all liked Python and were solving or wanted to solve a lot of similar problems. There was also a desire to get rid of ill-suited proprietary software in our satellite data production systems. At some point around 2010 the effort had grown big enough that we felt it needed a name. The "troll" in -Pytroll hints at the Nordic/Scandinavian heritage. Soon after colleagues at -FMI (the Finnish Met Service) and the Icelandic Met Service joined. The name +Pytroll hints at the Nordic/Scandinavian heritage. The name was not liked equally by all of us, but it was the best we could come up with. Now we are stuck with it. 😀 + +In 2013, a first Pytroll workshop open to anyone was organized, where colleagues from other meteorological services (among which Finland, Iceland, and Switzerland) joined. A set of presentations was shown and the session was recorded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEk95gxO8sE) + +Following this, the interest in Pytroll and the number of NMS involved grew, so that a small but steady community of developers maintained and developed the code of the different modules. +The project also caught the attention of some colleagues from EUMETSAT, who started using it internally for tasks like validation of different products. With their help, some new data readers were developed including the reader for the Native SEVIRI data format. + +In 2015, a discussion between developers of Pytroll and Polar2Grid lead to the realization that both projects were covering common functionality, and a few months later a decision was made to merge the functionality of both code bases. The first draft of satpy was pushed to github. Satpy has since been the most visible and known part of the Pytroll ecosystem. + +Since then, Pytroll has gained support from many NMS in Europe and outside, but also from EUMETSAT and the academic world, due to the dedication of its developers and the high quality of the software. + +To summarize the development of Pytroll, a video was made that show the commit history of the different modules between 2009 and 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwBvTT9h_Qs + From d17a505cf7c8ffd559477742de27ab949118fb17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Raspaud Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:25:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update history.md Co-authored-by: Gerrit Holl --- history.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/history.md b/history.md index a4ebc40..2cd7cd6 100644 --- a/history.md +++ b/history.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: History of Pytroll --- The open source collaboration that became Pytroll started in 2009 by a handful -of developers at the Danish Met Service (DMI) and SMHI including current +of developers at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) including current maintainers Martin Raspaud and Adam Dybbroe. We realized that we had a lot in common. We all liked Python and were solving or wanted to solve a lot of similar problems. There was also a desire to get rid of ill-suited proprietary From 56d7886d1e50d0154beca22aafffdafad98582ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Raspaud Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:29:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Update history.md --- history.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/history.md b/history.md index 2cd7cd6..1dfdb79 100644 --- a/history.md +++ b/history.md @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ title: History of Pytroll The open source collaboration that became Pytroll started in 2009 by a handful of developers at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) including current -maintainers Martin Raspaud and Adam Dybbroe. We realized that we had a lot in -common. We all liked Python and were solving or wanted to solve a lot of +maintainers Martin Raspaud and Adam Dybbroe. They realized that they had a lot in +common: they all liked Python and were solving or wanted to solve a lot of similar problems. There was also a desire to get rid of ill-suited proprietary -software in our satellite data production systems. At some point around 2010 -the effort had grown big enough that we felt it needed a name. The "troll" in +software in their respective satellite data production systems. At some point around 2010 +the effort had grown big enough that they felt it needed a name. The "troll" in Pytroll hints at the Nordic/Scandinavian heritage. The name -was not liked equally by all of us, but it was the best we could come up with. +was not liked equally by all, but it was the best they could come up with. Now we are stuck with it. 😀