10-year anniversary of PlasmaPy's first commit 🎉🎂💖🎆🪩🌌🥦

[namurphy]

Today is the 10-year anniversary of PlasmaPy's first commit. This commit added the BSD 3-clause license 📜 on November 24, 2015, and followed perhaps a year of me complaining about how plasma physics lacked and really needed an equivalent to Astropy. 😅

I added some basic package infrastructure over the next few days. You can browse through the files at this point in history and see PlasmaPy's first function. 😹🌌 Seeing setup.py again brings back a lot of memories! 🥲 The repository was idle for most of the next year before proposing the idea of PlasmaPy in a poster presentation at the APS DPP meeting in the fall of 2016 that gathered a lot of interest. We began development in earnest in early 2017.

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the PlasmaPy project over the years in a variety of ways! I'd especially like to thank @StanczakDominik, @rocco8773, @pheuer, @ejohnson-96, @JaydenR2305, @dschaffner, @svincena, @Sjbrownian, @qudsiramiz, @haman80, @KhalilBryant, @shaunagm, @SolarDrew, @Cadair, @wtbarnes, @lemmatum, @samurai688, @ritiek, @jasperbeckers, @Tiger-Du, @TrestanSimon, @mohawk811, @gregordecristoforo, @Getahun-yw-Mahl, @josephrhsmith, Sara Negussie, Derek Schaeffer, @colbych, @RAJAGOPALAN-GANGADHARAN, Ben Maruca, @yopology, @tulasinandan, and many others. Huge thanks to the Python in Heliophysics Community, the Astropy & SunPy communities, CRANE, CPS-FR, the OMFIT community, Pathways to Fusion, MagNetUS, OLUG, the APS DPP DEIA OCC, The Carpentries, US-RSE, OSSFE, pyOpenSci, and the Plasma Hack Week & Summer School organizers and participants. Thank you also to NSF, NASA, DOE, the Smithsonian Institution, and Google Summer of Code for supporting this work!

[qudsiramiz]

Thank you @namurphy for leading the effort all these years. Was so much fun working with you and @rocco8773 and organizing two PlasmaPy conferences! 😅

My only regret is that when I changed my GitHub username, it kept all my contributions under my old username! 😢

[namurphy]

My only regret is that when I changed my GitHub username, it kept all my contributions under my old username! 😢

This is the sole reason keeping me from changing my GitHub username to @DarthFortran.

[svincena]

Congratulations, Nick! You've birthed an amazing research and education tool for the plasma science, engineering, and education communities. Long live the coders!! Steve

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[lemmatum]

Congrats Nick and everyone! It's been wonderful watching this project grow and mature. Just last week at APS DPP I was having a discussion with a retired scientist who mentioned having to learn Python, and how one can use a handful of functions in PlasmaPy to estimate certain laser-plasma interaction effects. Very cool to see the community using the tools we wrote together. To many more fruitful years, Pawel

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[shaunagm]

Congratulations @namurphy and the whole community! It was such a joy getting to contribute such an amazing project with one of the friendliest, most diverse and most welcoming open source communities I've ever had the pleasure to be part of. <3

[tulasinandan]

Congrats Nick and the team! I fell out of touch after moving but the project is still close to my heart. I have been following the project closely. Some day I will find the time to get back to contributing. Keep up the great work guys! Cheers, Tulasi -- Tulasi Nandan Parashar, Senior Lecturer - Physics, 503 Laby Building, Gate 7, Kelburn Parade, Wellington 6012 Office Phone: +64-4-463-5804 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulasinandan

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