Awesome! This is really great news. Does this mean is several person-years of funding secured?
-CHB > On May 13, 2017, at 10:47 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As some of you know, I've been working for... quite some time now to > try to secure funding for NumPy. So I'm excited that I can now > officially announce that BIDS [1] is planning to hire several folks > specifically to work on NumPy. These will full time positions at UC > Berkeley, postdoc or staff, with probably 2 year (initial) contracts, > and the general goal will be to work on some of the major priorities > we identified at the last dev meeting: more flexible dtypes, better > interoperation with other array libraries, paying down technical debt, > and so forth. Though I'm sure the details will change as we start to > dig into things and engage with the community. > > More details soon; universities move slowly, so nothing's going to > happen immediately. But this is definitely happening and I wanted to > get something out publicly before the conference season starts – so if > you're someone who might be interested in coming to work with me and > the other awesome folks at BIDS, then this is a heads-up: drop me a > line and we can chat! I'll be at PyCon next week if anyone happens to > be there. And feel free to spread the word. > > -n > > [1] http://bids.berkeley.edu/ > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
