I'll re-open this earlier thread...Didrik Pinte of Enthought is offering to match my suggested £600 donation towards a numpy-pypy project. He's offering it in a personal capacity (i.e. not as an Enthought activity) out of his own pocket (and my donation would come out of my Consultancy). His offer came out of a discussion on pypy's merits at the London Financial Python Usergroup meet a few weeks back.
So, you've got £1,200 via two individuals ready as a gift towards numpy integration, as/when someone can use the money. I won't promise that my gift will always be available as my personal situation may be changing in the next 6 weeks (so please - if you can use it - ask for it soon!). Regards, Ian (UK) On 29 June 2011 14:16, Ian Ozsvald <i...@ianozsvald.com> wrote: > I'm glad this thread is up. Laura - I'm the chap from Armin's talk who > offered a monthly retainer for a year towards numpy integration (in my > mind I'm offering £50/month for 12 months). I spoke to you later and > you mentioned the flattr site but having to do it each month is a bit > of a pain (I know it is simple but I don't want to think about it...). > > So, for the record, I have £600 sitting here with someone's name on > it, I'll account for it as a marketing expense or something out of my > company. I'm a one man consultancy, PyPy doesn't directly help me as > I'm an A.I./science researcher (so I need numpy, IPython, matplotlib > etc) but I believe strongly that it will help all of Python (and me in > part) over time, so it is worth pledging some of my earnings towards > the goal of eventual numpy integration. > > If I can pledge it to someone or a project then that's cool, if I > should just move the money to someone's account then that's cool too. > I'm quite happy to have my name down as ContributorNumber1ForNumpy if > it helps you spread the word. > > Ian. > ps. I posted the v0.1 PDF of my High Performance Python tutorial this > morning (it is based on my EuroPython training session). It has a > section on PyPy and I'd happily accept input if that section should be > expanded: > http://ianozsvald.com/2011/06/29/high-performance-pyethon-tutorial-v0-1-from-my-4-hour-tutorial-at-europython-2011/ > > On 29 June 2011 08:53, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: >> >>>The idea was also to possibly attract new developers ... for example, if >>>there would be "10 days in money" for adapting py2exe, I am sure many wou >>>ld >>>jump to solve this puzzle. >> >> This is sort of a bad example. Because py2exe embeds CPython, and >> we wouldn't want to do that. So what we would probably want to do is >> to make some general tool that willmake a windows binary, or a >> mac one, and get rid of the need for bzfreeze and friends. So now >> you are looking at a general embedding solution, and that is more >> than 10 days worth of work. >> >> But I get the idea. >> >> <snip> >>>> my dream was of a trustee service: after somebody commits to do the wor >>>k, >>>the pledgers have to pay to a trustee. then the work is done. then the >>>trustee pays the worker. >> >> This is one of the things I want to talk with fundedbyme about. But >> having an explicit trustee is a new idea. I think the pypy core >> developers are already rather well trusted in this community, but >> this may be important to new developers who aren't as well known. >> And it handles the problem' of 'I got sick and cannot do this any >> more' more gracefully than other solutions. >> >>>Hmmm.... a structure could be: >>> >>>- service provider does the technical stuff, as in: >>> # website >>> # collect pledges >>> # handle project description >>> # collect money >>> # distribute money after feature completion >> >> fundedbyme has sort of indicated an interst in doing this (except >> they were talking about distribution before, and I was leaving >> project description to the project, not outsiders). I will follow >> up on this when I get back home to Sweden. >> >>>- PSF / pypy-foundation / whateverfoundation provides the trust >>> >>>Thanks for confirming the need for such a thing! >>> >>>Harald >> >> Thanks once again for seeing a marketing solution that nerds like >> us often miss. >> >> Laura >> _______________________________________________ >> pypy-dev mailing list >> pypy-dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev >> > > > > -- > Ian Ozsvald (A.I. researcher, screencaster) > i...@ianozsvald.com > > http://IanOzsvald.com > http://SocialTiesApp.com/ > http://MorConsulting.com/ > http://blog.AICookbook.com/ > http://TheScreencastingHandbook.com > http://FivePoundApp.com/ > http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald > -- Ian Ozsvald (A.I. researcher, screencaster) i...@ianozsvald.com http://IanOzsvald.com http://SocialTiesApp.com/ http://MorConsulting.com/ http://blog.AICookbook.com/ http://TheScreencastingHandbook.com http://FivePoundApp.com/ http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
