## Matplotlib New Contributors meeting - March 2024

Welcome to the monthly call for new contributors to the Matplotlib project 🎉

* Next meeting: [March 5th, 2024 (Tuesday) @ **12PM (noon) UTC**](https://time.is/1200_5_March_2024_in_UTC/)
* Join via [Zoom](https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/88077871096?pwd=bTxkJRug4Lmr8AiR9jNyntxBS4yGDe.1)
* if you need a passcode for zoom MPL should work

### Code of Conduct

We want to take a moment to remind you that this meeting, like all project spaces, is meant to be open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and it's important for us to have a healthy community. Like all matplotlib spaces, and everyone participating in them, this meeting will follow our [code of conduct](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). If you haven't read it yet, please take some time to do so later on as it already applies to you. For now, in short, please be kind and generous towards one another.

## Agenda for March 5th, 2024

**Present:** Melissa (@melissawm), Shivam (@), Thomas Saranti (@)

*Feel free to add items for discussion to this agenda!*
* Introductions:
* Name
* A bit about our experience with matplotlib/python as users
* Newcomer: why are we interested to start working with the project
* Maintainer/contributor: how long have we worked with the project and what do we primarily do
* [name=Melissa] she/her
* I am mostly working on documentation, and contributor experience related issues (for example organizing this meeting). I am a new-ish contributor to Matplotlib as well! My background is applied mathematics, and I'm a maintainer for NumPy, SciPy and napari.

* [name=Shivam] Has made an initial PR, but is lost in the codebase.

## Useful Resources

* [Our contributor Guide](https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/contributing.html)
* This is where we keep past meeting notes from the new contributors meeting [on github](https://github.com/matplotlib/ProjectManagement)
* You will soon find today's meeting notes there
* You can also have a look at topics and links that were shared before 🧐
* If you are curious, here's an article about [the architecture of Matplotlib](http://www.aosabook.org/en/matplotlib.html)
* Here is a presentation on ways to contribute to Matplotlib: https://hackmd.io/@matplotlib/ncm

### Communication channels

How will we communicate asynchronously while working on the project?
* [Gitter](https://gitter.im/matplotlib/matplotlib)
* A chat platform which is useful for shorter questions
* #incubator channel, our non-public communication channel for new contributors
* Ask on chat now, or later [on the #community channel on gitter](https://gitter.im/matplotlib/community) to be invited
* [Discourse](https://discourse.matplotlib.org/)
* A forum platform which is useful for longer questions that are harder to ask on chat
* [Developer mailing list](https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/matplotlib-devel)
* We publish information which is important for contributors on this list. People from other projects might also share useful information or questions here. That said, it is also mirrored on our discourse 😉 (unless we there's a technical issue like happened recently 🙄)