On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > 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. > The EuroScipy organizers have accepted our sprint, so we'll have a room available. If you're going to the conference, think about reserving Sun 25 Aug to attend this sprint. I've put up a page where people can add topics and more details: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/EuroSciPy2013Sprint Ralf > > 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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