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# 2023-11-20 NumPy Documentation Team meeting

- Time: 11 pm UTC
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- Next meeting: 2023-12-04 @ 11PM UTC

### Useful links

- Getting started with building documentation: https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/howto_build_docs.html
- How to contribute to the NumPy documentation: https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/howto-docs.html

### Code of Conduct

We want to take a moment to remind you that this meeting is meant to be welcoming and inclusive. It's important for us to have a healthy community. Like all NumPy spaces, and everyone participating in them, this meeting will follow our [Code of Conduct](https://numpy.org/code-of-conduct/). 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.

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**Present:** Mukulika, Mars, Hetav Pandya, Rohit

**Notes taken by:**

## Standing topics

- [name=inessa] Presentation topics for NumPy Newcomers’ Hour
To suggest a topic for future presentations, leave a comment in this tracking issue: https://github.com/numpy/archive/issues/58.
- Short form content?

- [name=Inessa & Melissa] [Documentation user stories](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/22089)
*Feel free to add yours!*

- Inessa: issues related to the NumPy educational content:
https://github.com/numpy/archive/issues/55
If you’d like to work on any of them, leave a comment on GitHub (below the relevant issue).

- Tracking inactive PRs: https://github.com/orgs/numpy/projects/6
(help with triaging is welcome!)

## Follow-up from last meeting / discussions

## New topics
- Mars gave the 'Comics in NumPy? More Likely Than you Think!' at PyData NYC!
- Recording of talk will be uploaded around January
- Digital comic: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3e66a13901.html
- Krita source files, printable PDF and talk slides in the [repository](https://github.com/MarsBarLee/gsod-numpy-2023)
- 100 copies handed out at the talk
- Figure out hosting on NumPy website
- **Next steps**
- Review with Mukulika?
- Community Review #3 of 10/16 pages so far
- Uploading comic to NumPy website, currently on heyzine
- Completion of last 6 pages
- **Previous steps**:
- Review #2 (August)
- Review #1 (July)
- Outlining stage for GSOD-NumPy 2023 (May 15-26):
- Gathering community input stage and 3 brainstorming sesions
- At Newcomer(May 4) NumPy Docs (May 8), Commmunity (May 10)
- [Link to Google Jamboard](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1j_rEIslOh59N9cLGU1VGc7rTc88SuLTi7l4YqTqAULc/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Summary from Brainstorming Sessions](https://github.com/MarsBarLee/gsod-numpy-2023/blob/main/outlining/summary-from-brainstorming-sessions.md)

- Testing tutorials with the NumPy 2.0
- Looking at updating the infrastructure soon

- Discussion on inline licenses (F2PY): https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25193
- Soliciting reviews / suggestions for this minor F2PY documentation update: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25196
- Numbered subsections yay/nay
- yay: intuitive
- nay: churn if re-order sections, need to re-order numbers
- Most of current documentation is flat, not indented in side-bar preview
- [Example of current documentation that uses numbers](https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/howto-docs.html#documenting-c-c-code)
- Theme [allows numbers](https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/issues/361)

- Open to testers for https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/numpy/f2py/tests/test_f2py2e.py
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