On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:56 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: > > 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). > > 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?
I would be happy to be part of the team doing it, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
