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142<p>See <a href="/summits/developer/2024/">summit website</a>.</p>
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144<p>See <a href="/summits/developer/2023">summit website</a>.</p>
145<h2 id="20210421-specs-announced-at-scipy-2021">2021&ndash;04&ndash;21: SPECs announced at SciPy 2021<a class="headerlink" href="#20210421-specs-announced-at-scipy-2021" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
146<p>Stéfan van der Walt announces the Scientific Python Ecosystem Coordination project and
147talks about the SPEC documents during SciPy 2021.</p>
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