On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Rocher <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear all, > > One recurring question is how to *grow the contributor base* to NumPy and > provide help and relief to core developers and maintainers. > > One way to do this would be to *leverage the upcoming SciPy conference*in 2 > ways: > > 1. Provide an intermediate or advanced level tutorial on NumPy > focusing on teaching the C-API and the architecture of the package to help > people navigate the source code, and find answers to precise deep > questions. I think that many users would be interested in being better able > to understand the underlayers to become powerful users (and contributors if > they want to). > > 2. Organize a Numpy sprint to leverage all this freshly graduated > students apply what they learned to tackle some of the work under the > guidance of core developers. > > This would be a great occasion to share and grow knowledge that is > fundamental to our community. And the fact that the underlayers are in C is > fine IMHO: SciPy is about scientific programming in Python and that is done > with a lot of C. > > *Thoughts? Anyone interested in leading a tutorial (can be a team of > people)? Anyone willing to coordinate the sprint? Who would be willing to > be present and help during the sprint? * > First thought: excellent initiative. I'm not going to be at SciPy, but I'm happy to coordinate a numpy/scipy sprint at EuroScipy. Going to email the organizers right now. Ralf > Note that there is less than 1 week left until the tutorial submission > deadline. I am happy to help brainstorm on this to make it happen. > > Thanks, > Jonathan and Andy, for the SciPy2013 organizers > > -- > Jonathan Rocher, PhD > Scientific software developer > SciPy2013 conference co-chair > Enthought, Inc. > [email protected] > 1-512-536-1057 > http://www.enthought.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NumFOCUS" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >
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