John Hunter, author of Matplotlib, founding board member of NumFOCUS, husband to Miriam, and father to three daughters: Clara, Ava, and Rahel, was diagnosed with cancer in late July 2012 after returning from his keynote address at SciPy in Austin, TX. He passed away on August 28th from complications arising from necessary cancer treatment. See the announcement email by his good friend, Fernando Perez.
John has given so much to all of us in the Python community, now is our time to give something back to his family by providing for the education and support of his children. We have setup the John Hunter Memorial Fund to provide a mechanism for individuals and companies who have appreciated John’s work, to give back to him by ensuring that his children have funds available for their education.
Donations are gifts to Miriam and her girls. They will be used for the care and education of Clara, Ava, and Rahel. As of A PayPal account has been set up so that you may give to John’s family directly. You may also send a check directly to the family made out to Miriam Sierig and mailed to the address below. Thank you for your generosity!
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Miriam Sierig
953 E Hyde Park Blvd #2
Chicago, IL 60615
I appreciate John for his work on matplotlib, it is a tool I use frequently and I value its professionalism.
My mother also died quickly and unexpectedly from cancer, though fortunately I was somewhat older than John’s three daughters must be now. I can only imagine how much harder it would be. I hope for the best for John’s family.
Like many others I moved from Matlab to Python when I learned about Scipy and Numpy. I was struggling initially with the plotting, and was wondering whether the move to Python was a wrong one. Then I came across Matplotlib and I never used Matlab after that. Thanks John for creating this wonderful piece of software. My heartfelt sympathies towards the family on his demise. May his soul rest in peace.
Thanks to all others who worked and are working on the project.
matplotlib has always helped me to visualize data in my research. Thank you for your great work.
Rest in peace, John.
Extensively used matplotlib for thesis. Amasing tool. many thanx!
Condolences to family, friends and collegues..
Thanks for your amazing work this awesome software package
R.I.P
I am coming from far away place that it had made for a month or day or hours separated by a big ocean and distance from INDONESIA archipelago. Here is in deep of my heart , I say to thank you to you , JOHN for your contribution in software that you have already built for ours at no cost. Also for your lovely wife and your children , please don’t give-up with your life after someone in special has passed away. Many thank to you and your family.
R.I.P.
John, thank you from Spain, people as you make us our life easier. Thank you!
Matplotlib had been the most useful tool for my work lately. It’s very sad to find out about its creator this way. May his family and loved ones find peace, your tools and creations will be remembered, used and shared by many.
I am using this wonderful library from my college time, feeling sad after hearing this bad news. Me and whole Indian python developer family will always remember you. Thanks John for your contributions to python community.
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Though he has gone, the matplotlib would be working with us forever. Thanks.
I am from Switzerland.
Thank you John for your great contribution. I use matplotlib almost every day and I still discover new and beautiful ways to represent data.
Thanks John, Matplotlib is an amazing job. Sincere thoughts to all his family and friends.
I personally use matplotlib for my graduate research and I greatly appreciate anyone who is willing to give of themselves selflessly for the benefit of others. It’s never easy to let someone go who has given so much and has had such great influence on the world. We will benefit from his charity, generosity, and hard work for years to come. Rest in peace, John. I realize this is somewhat after the surge of sorrow, but our prayers are with you, Miriam, Clara, Ava, and Rahel. Keep moving forward! Your sorrow will be only for a moment. What a glorious thing it will be to be reunited in the next life!
Kindest Regards,
Tisimst
Thank you for a contribution that has helped and will continue to help so many. Matplotlib was indispensable to my thesis. The contribution of such an immense effort to open source is an inspiration to others.
Many many thanks to John Hunter who has created a marvel for the python community. I started using matplotlib about 10 months ago and since then I’ve been discovering various fantastic ways to visualize the data through matplotlib. My sincere thoughts to the family and friends.
I come from a very poor country. John enabled me and countless others to experiment, learn and visually understand science in a free way – but more than that, matplotlib’s main point is not that it is free but that it is truly the most beautiful package for plotting.
I came to Europe to further my education and the donation I made today was the first online donation in my life.
My heartfelt condolences to Clara, Ava and Rahel. You had an amazing father, working behind the stages for humanity instead of quick fame or money. He might not be here, but his life has touched millions and will always inspire people to work for others.
Tragic news. I’d been offline lately and hadn’t picked up on this earlier. Rest in peace, John. My best sympathies to all of his family and friends.
Matplotlib is a fantastic contribution so useful for science. John Hunter departed too early but left something great behind him. Many thanks also to everybody who help together with him.
I have the same age than John. Two childrens. And spend too much time at work and getting worried by futile problems. One should benefit from Life as much as possible.
Condolences to the family.
I am from beijing,China.
Thank you John for your great contribution. I use matplotlib almost every day and I still discover new and beautiful ways to represent data.
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John,
Thank you for the creation of matplotlib. I observed its organic growth from a fledgling utility to an industrial strength tool. Without it, my work would have been much less productive.
May you rest in peace and I send my heartfelt condolences to the wife and three daughters you leave behind.
Thank you, John!
thanks
May his soul rest in peace.. My heart felt condolences and prayers to John’s family.
Matplotlib is one of my strongest arguments for the use of Python and I love using it. Matplotlib was also very essential to my thesis.
Thank you for your amazing work.
Rest in peace and my condolences to your family.
Thanks John,
R.I.P. mate, cheers from Brasil.
I don’t know what other things John Hunter did in his life but It is not often that one gets to help millions people with their work, matplotlib has certainly been an essential tool for me. Thank you John Hunter for your lasting legacy.
R.I.P
My sympathies to John’s family and I’d just like to re-iterrate what others have said above: he will never know how much his efforts in matplotlib have given to the scientific community who use Python, I personally have been using the code for over 6 years and it is invaluable to me. So on behalf of all my colleagues, a grateful thanks and our heartfelt wishes to his daughters and partner.
matplotlib has been critical throughout my PhD. Thanks John! You’ll live on in our minds, and in our code.
Jhon you live in our hearts with Matplotlib
R.I.P Thank you , John.
Bless from China.
John, 一直都在使用你的matplotlib. 安息吧，一路走好。
matplotlib is very useful and I have utilized it in our performance test framework at work to plot latency reports
Rest in peace John,
And I wish best of luck, health and patience for his family.
A grateful beneficiary of matplotlib, I was thrilled to see him at the PyData and SciPy conferences. John was so obviously engaged in a labor of love — smart, warm, utterly without pretense — that I could not resist his example and charm. May we all take to heart the shining volunteerism he brought to his work.
Peace and consolations to his family.
Thank you, John, for the beautiful work of matplotlib. 一路走好….
Matplotlib was /the/ enabling piece of software for me and many others to start using Python in scientific research and, once through the door, Python became one of the most important pieces of my toolkit and hence livelihood. We owe John a great deal of thanks, and he will be missed.
Thank you from Omaha!
Thanks, John
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Matplotlib is one of the best library i’ve ever use..
Thanks a lot John. You’ll always be remembered. Rest in peace.
Such unexpected and tragic news! I am very, very sorry to hear it. I have used matplotlib for many years now and love it. Thank you, John.
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Obrigado John, pela sua enorme vontade de contribuir para o conhecimento e ajudar as pessoas, sua ferramenta é e será sempre maravilhosa.
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