Thu, May 30
|Rockville Makerspace
MoCo Makers Hackathon Kickoff
Hackathon Kickoff - C Programming for Python's Pillow Library- In Person/Virtual
Time & Location
May 30, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Rockville Makerspace, 33 Maryland Ave, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
About the event
Hello talented programmers. This is an advanced topic, for experienced coders. We are looking to form a working group of C programmers to contribute to Python's #1 image library Pillow.
Pillow has almost 100M downloads per month - https://pypistats.org/packages/pillow
We will be joined by Alex, the Pillow project maintainer who will guide our group through the requirements of a major data type refactoring. The issue being tracked is this one: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/1888
The Issue is about adding support for larger data format images like TIFF that need float64 and other to work with the geographic (GIS) industries, as well as visual-effects industries.
At this kick off meeting, we will have an introduction to the data use-cases of these file format types. We will go through a basic primer on image data types, and layout key objectives for our working group. Then, the weekend after this event, we'll begin our refactoring working group/hackathon…