On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:51 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:23 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> >> >> I agreed to help organising NumPy sprints during the scipy 2013 >> >> conference in Austin. >> >> >> >> As some of you may know, Stéfan and me will present a tutorial on >> >> NumPy C code, so if we do our job correctly, we should have a few new >> >> people ready to help out during the sprints. >> >> >> >> It would be good to: >> >> - have some focus topics for improvements >> >> - know who is going to be there at the sprint to work on things >> >> and/or help newcomers >> >> >> >> Things I'd like to work on myself is looking into splitting things >> >> from multiarray, think about a better internal API for dtype >> >> registration/hooks (with the goal to remove any date dtype hardcoding >> >> in both multiarray and ufunc machinery), but I am sure others have >> >> more interesting ideas :) >> >> >> > >> > I'd like to get a 1.8 beta out or at least get to the point where we can >> > make that leap. >> >> Sure, I am fine doing this in a branch post 1.8.x, I am not in a hurry. >> >> > There is a lot of new stuff that needs to be tested, PR's to >> > go through, and I have a suspicion that a memory allocation error might >> have >> > crept in somewhere. >> >> Will you be there at the conference ? >> > > Yes. I'm not very good at sprinting though. I prefer to amble with a big > screen, nice keyboard, and a cup of coffee ;) > > Chuck > > Oh, I am sure we could get you set up with a projector screen and a nice bluetooth keyboard... Now, I think you just hit on something with the coffee. I don't recall previous sprints having coffee available. Ben Root
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