DOC: advertise coming style changes

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+Default Style Changes
+=====================
+
+Colormap
+--------
+
+``matplotlib`` is changing the default colormap and styles in the
+upcoming 2.0 release!
+
+The new default color map will be 'viridis' (aka `option
+D <http://bids.github.io/colormap/>`_).  For an introduction to color
+theory and how 'viridis' was generated watch Nathaniel Smith and
+Stéfan van der Walt's talk from SciPy2015
+
+.. raw:: html
+
+    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xAoljeRJ3lU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+All four color maps will be included in matplotlib 1.5.
+
+
+Everything Else
+---------------
+
+We are soliciting proposals to change any and all visual defaults
+(including adding new rcParams as needed).
+
+If you have a proposal please create an issue or PR on `github <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new>`_ with the
+changes to `rcsetup.py` and `matplotlibrc.template` by August 9, 2015.
+
+In the second week of August, Micheal Droettboom and I will decide on
+the new default styles, with the release of 2.0 by the beginning of
+September 2015.
+
+A 'classic' style sheet will be provided so reverting to the 1.x
+default values will be a single line of python
+(`mpl.style.use('classic')`).
