On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I wanted to give everyone an update on what's going on with the NumPy > grant [1]. As you may have noticed, things have been moving a bit > slower than originally hoped -- unfortunately my health is improving > but has continued to be rocky [2]. > > Fortunately, I have awesome co-workers, and BIDS has an institutional > interest/mandate for figuring out how to make these things happen, so > after thinking it over we've decided to reorganize how we're doing > things internally and split up the work to let me focus on the core > technical/community aspects without getting overloaded. Specifically, > Fernando Pérez and Jonathan Dugan [3] are taking on PI/administration > duties, Stéfan van der Walt will focus on handling day-to-day > management of the incoming hires, and Nelle Varoquaux & Jarrod Millman > will also be joining the team (exact details TBD). > > This shouldn't really affect any of you, except that you might see > some familiar faces with @berkeley.edu emails becoming more engaged. > I'm still leading the Berkeley effort, and in any case it's still > ultimately the community and NumPy steering council who will be making > decisions about the project – this is just some internal details about > how we're planning to manage our contributions. But in the interest of > full transparency I figured I'd let you know what's happening. > > In other news, the job ad to start the official hiring process has now > been submitted for HR review, so it should hopefully be up soon -- > depending on how efficient the bureaucracy is. I'll definitely let > everyone know as soon as its posted. > > I'll also be giving a lunch talk at BIDS tomorrow to let folks locally > know about what's going on, which I think will be recorded – I'll send > around a link after in case others are interested. > > -n > > [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/ > 2017-May/076818.html > [2] https://vorpus.org/blog/emerging-from-the-underworld/ > [3] https://bids.berkeley.edu/people/jonathan-dugan > Thanks for the update. Chuck
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