On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 5:05 PM Renato Fabbri <renato.fab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not only for me, but a question for the community in general. > Do we have an open knowledge base of budget (interested companies or > individuals, public funding) > for developing numpy-related packages? > Hi Renato, no we don't have that. Nor does it seem like an easy thing to develop in general, since it's so broad and can change quickly. If you browse the NumFOCUS website you will get a part of the picture. We've also announced grants and other support we've received for NumPy itself on this list. For building on top of NumPy though - that's a whole ecosystem. You won't find a comprehensive answer anywhere I'm afraid. > Explaining a bit with a specific case... > In the last few years, I have many times thought about the possibility of > working with Numpy: > finding payment for developing libraries using Numpy or even Numpy > internals. > "NumPy internals" vs. "libraries using NumPy" is very distinct. Only the former is on-topic here. > Especially, I have written a music python library (called 'music' on PyPI). > It holds many useful things, equal-loudness contours, musical notes, > localization, HRTF, LUT, singing, glissandi, tremolos & vibratos with > transitions, etc etc. > I believe it is something well done, which involved scientific research > and over a decade of experience with the algorithms, but it still lacks a > better organization of the functionalities, better documentation, and > better maintenance. > To reach that point, one would probably have to be paid to take the > necessary time. > To give you a frank assessment: you won't find grant funding opportunities in the places we're getting other funding. Your best bets are: 1. Individual sponsorship from people who care about what you make - GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, etc. 2. A funder primarily interested in music & (digital) culture. That assumes that your project is at least best-in-class. > > Beyond that, I know it is useful for making art/music, teaching, learning > music, learning music-related signal processing and programming, etc. > > Maybe the most important point: this is probably the case with other > libraries/projects. > > ((( > On the other side, we as a company (here at Modena/Italy) may look into > (public, private, own) funding > to develop Numpy (internals, libraries). > We would also enjoy developing Numpy-related libraries (internals?) if > someone needs or wants them. > ))) > We have a public roadmap (see https://numpy.org/neps/) for what we think is needed most. If you are serious about funding work on NumPy, we'd be happy to discuss that. Cheers, Ralf > Should this be posted in another list/forum? > Any thoughts? > R. > > -- > Renato Fabbri > -- > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com >
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