A Decade of Open-Source: A Plotly Community Gathering & Party
TL;DR: Join us Tuesday May 12th from 1 PM- 10 PM at Apna Chulha (550 Valencia St) for a Plotly community gathering, SF release party for Plotly Studio, and celebration of ten years of Plotly open-source software. Hosted by Plotly CEO Jim McIntosh, Cofounders Chris Parmer, Alex Johnson, & Matt Sundquist, Senior Product Manager Louis Huard, and VP of Customer Success Chelsea Douglas. Drop by anytime for a demo and free appetizers. Then join the after party from 10 PM - 2 AM at Blondie's where Palette Cofounder Chris Parmer will DJ a set: https://soundcloud.com/chrissy-please/popular-tracks.
🎂 Plotly’s Python, R, and JavaScript libraries have now been freely available as open-source software for a decade. Plotly's libraries have been downloaded more than 538 million times. The Python library is downloaded two million times a day and relied on by 459,000 software projects on GitHub. Plotly’s 225 open-source repositories have a combined 100K+ GitHub stars and thousands of volunteer contributors. Plotly has become a definitive plotting library for data science, interactive graphs and dashboards online, scientific and technical computing, software, and publications.
🎉 To celebrate a decade of innovation, collaboration, and community, we invite you to join us for a drop-by day of food, drinks, and talks. We’ll hear from friends and leaders in data science, open-source, and policy. We’ll hear from partners who have been part of our journey. We’ll reflect on the past, explore new horizons, and appreciate the community that has made it all possible.
➕ If you can't make it (or if you can), feel free to pass this invite along to your Bay Area data science, open-source, Python, and business analyst colleagues and friends. And those who enjoy free food, good community, and fun dancing.
🦸🏻♀️ Data science has given us superpowers. We can organize, analyze, and understand billions of data points in seconds; visualize patterns, the microscopic, and unseen; and model and predict reality, truth, and nature. Plotly has been part of this revolution. Plotly empowers middle school math students, world-class scientists, and the majority of Fortune 500 companies to turn data into insight. We’ve made these superpowers accessible to all.
🛠️ Free, cloud, & open-source. We love that people have extended Plotly into other programming languages like Ruby, .net, F#, Mathematica, Julia, MATLAB, Rust, Go, Perl, Haskell, Elixir, Scala, Node, PHP, and Clojure. We are inviting representatives from these communities to attend and give talks.
🔐 Enterprise, desktop, & AI products. Plotly Studio is a breakthrough data science innovation that lets you create interactive graphs and dashboards in minutes all through plain language. Upload a CSV or spreadsheet, or connect to a database and describe your project in plain language. Studio generates a complete interactive dashboard. Refine with chat, an editor, low code, or Python. Share with teammates and publish securely to the Plotly Cloud. Chris built it, and will demo it throughout the day. It's how people want to interact with data plotly.com/studio. We also offer Dash Enterprise for private, internal, and secure hosting; database connections; and identity management.
👥 We believe in open-source. Open-source is a proven way to build better products. It means more people can help detect and fix bugs. Open-source enables wider contributions, broadens perspectives, and covers more use cases. We can understand and trust open-source code. It seems to be in the best interest of society for data and software to be publicly studied and collectively built. Open-source transparency and trust can build trust in areas that impact safety, society, ecology, and our collective well-being. Open-source is also a fun, communitarian, and empowering way to build software. It fosters creativity, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose among developers and users alike. Join us 🫶