On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Travis Oliphant <[email protected]>wrote: > >> For people interested in the www.numpy.org home page: >> >> Jon Turner has officially transferred the www.numpy.org domain to >> NumFOCUS. Thank you, Jon for this donation and for being a care-taker >> of the domain-name. We have setup the domain registration to point to >> numpy.github.com and I've changed the CNAME in that repostiory to >> www.numpy.org >> >> I've sent an email to have the numpy.scipy.org page to redirect to >> www.numpy.org. >> >> The NumPy home page can still be edited in this repository: >> [email protected]:numpy/numpy.org.git. Pull requests are always welcome >> --- especially pull requests that improve the look and feel of the web-page. >> >> Two of the content changes that we need to make a decision about is >> >> 1) whether or not to put links to books published (Packt >> publishing for example has offered a higher percentage of their revenues if >> we put a prominent link on www.numpy.org) >> > > I'm +1 on showing links to books in a sidebar on the main page and/or on > the documentation page, provided that (a) someone in this community can > vouch for the quality of the book, and (b) we accept links for all books > that are relevant and of sufficient quality. > Does anyone have an informed opinion on the quality of these books: "NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide", Ivan Idris, http://www.packtpub.com/numpy-1-5-using-real-world-examples-beginners-guide/book "NumPy Cookbook", Ivan Idris, http://www.packtpub.com/numpy-for-python-cookbook/book "Python for Data Analysis", Wes McKinney, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do "SciPy and NumPy", Eli Bressert, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020219.do The first 5 books at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4375094/numpy-what-are-the-authoritative-numpy-resources-e-g-documentation-tutorial Are there any more I missed? Ralf > 2) whether or not to accept "Sponsored by" links on the home page >> for donations to the project (e.g. Continuum Analytics has sponsored Ondrej >> release management, other companies have sponsored pull requests, other >> companies may want to provide donations and we would want to recognize >> their contributions to the numpy project). >> > > +1 for putting this on the main page. Something like the Support section > on the IPython main page would be good. It lists specifically what the > support was for. > > >> These decisions should be made by the NumPy community which in my mind >> are interested people on this list. Who is interested in this kind of >> discussion? >> >> We could have these discussions on this list or on the >> [email protected] list and keep this list completely technical >> (which I prefer, but I will do whatever the consensus is). >> > > I'd prefer things that are cross-project to move to the numfocus list, but > things that are specifically about NumPy (which numpy.org content is) to > stay on this list. > > Ralf > >
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