2025 November Developer Summit

Sponsors#

We would like to thank the following institutions and projects for sponsoring this year’s Summit.

Sponsors

Thank you to European Spallation Source ERIC for providing staff and sponsoring us during the Summit.

During the event#

Worklog
Pre-planning issues
Discord channel
There is also a WhatsApp group for travel coordination

Agenda#

Tuesday

Time	Description
	Arrive
18:30	Informal group dinner

Wednesday

Time	Description
9:00–9:30	Breakfast
9:00–9:30	Welcome & coordination
9:30–13:00	Work session
13:00–14:30	Lunch & campus/coffee walks
14:30–17:30	Work session
17:30–18:00	Check-in / discussion

Thursday

Time	Description
9:00–9:30	Breakfast
9:00–9:30	Welcome & coordination
9:30–13:00	Work session
13:00–14:30	Lunch & campus/coffee walks
14:30–17:30	Work session
17:30–18:00	Check-in / discussion

Friday

Time	Description
9:00–9:30	Breakfast
9:00–9:30	Welcome & coordination
9:30–13:00	Work session
13:00–14:30	Lunch & campus/coffee walks
14:30–17:30	Work session
17:30–18:00	Check-in / discussion

Saturday

Time	Description
	Depart

Funding#

Unfortunately, this year we do not have any dedicated funding to cover participants travel and accommodation costs.

Project maintainers, please reach out to your individual projects or employers to determine whether they have funds to sponsor your attendance.

Logistics#

We have space for 20-25 participants for three days. This will be an invite-only event that requires upfront agreement to: (a) take part in at least one pre-summit planning meeting, (b) collaborate with fellow participants on a work plan, (c) attend the summit in-person, and (d) participate, to whatever degree possible, in several months of post-summit implementation.

Airport to hotel#

Food#

Participants#

Participants are recruited from the community of developers of packages such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, xarray, pandas, scikit-image, scikit-learn, NetworkX, and IPython, as well as domain stacks including Astropy, Pangeo, and scikit-HEP.

About#

Work Topics#

The 2025 November Scientific Python Developer Summit will focus on work topics our participants express the most interest in. For comparison, these were the focus areas for the summit held in May, in Seattle:

Dates#

Attendees should preferably arrive the day before the summit starts, and stay for the entire duration of the summit.

Pre-Summit Planning#

Participants will be responsible for attending at least one video meetings and for participating in a planning repository via PRs, issues—as both contributors and reviewers. There is no heavy top-down structure: participants themselves will organize the work that needs to be done ahead of time. They will decide on topics, divide the work, and schedule the meeting.

Summit Execution#

The goal of the summit is to be a hands-on work meeting. That said, there will be some free time scheduled to brainstorm new ideas, and to discuss current community projects and activities.

Post-Summit Implementation#

After the meeting, attendees will collaborate on their assigned tasks until completion.