Re: [Numpy-discussion] Growing the contributor base of Numpy

2013-03-27 Thread Andrea Cimatoribus
Not sure if this is really relevant to the original message, but here is my 
opinion. I think that the numpy/scipy community would greatly benefit from a 
platform enabling easy sharing of code written by users. This would provide a 
database of solved problems, where people could dig without having to ask. I 
think that something like this exists for matlab, but I have no experience with 
it. If it exists for python, then it must be seriously under-advertised. The 
web provides many answers, but they are scattered in all sorts of places, and 
it is often impossible to contribute improvements to code found online. If such 
a database could enable some sort of collaborative development it would be a 
great added value for numpy, and would provide a natural source of new features 
or improvements for scipy and numpy.
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Growing the contributor base of Numpy

2013-03-27 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Andrea Cimatoribus
andrea.cimatori...@nioz.nl wrote:

 Not sure if this is really relevant to the original message, but here is my 
 opinion. I think that the numpy/scipy community would greatly benefit from a 
 platform enabling easy sharing of code written by users. This would provide a 
 database of solved problems, where people could dig without having to ask. I 
 think that something like this exists for matlab, but I have no experience 
 with it. If it exists for python, then it must be seriously under-advertised. 
 The web provides many answers, but they are scattered in all sorts of places, 
 and it is often impossible to contribute improvements to code found online. 
 If such a database could enable some sort of collaborative development it 
 would be a great added value for numpy, and would provide a natural source of 
 new features or improvements for scipy and numpy.

Supposedly that's what scipy-central is for, but it's somehow not yet
reached critical mass and become a household name; I haven't looked
hard enough to have any hypotheses about why not. Surya Kasturi is
working on spiffing it up (see discussion on scipy-dev); I bet they
could use some help if you want to scratch this itch.

-n
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Growing the contributor base of Numpy

2013-03-27 Thread Andrea Cimatoribus
Oh, I didn't even know it existed!


 Not sure if this is really relevant to the original message, but here is my 
 opinion. I think that the numpy/scipy community would greatly benefit from a 
 platform enabling easy sharing of code written by users. This would provide a 
 database of solved problems, where people could dig without having to ask. I 
 think that something like this exists for matlab, but I have no experience 
 with it. If it exists for python, then it must be seriously under-advertised. 
 The web provides many answers, but they are scattered in all sorts of places, 
 and it is often impossible to contribute improvements to code found online. 
 If such a database could enable some sort of collaborative development it 
 would be a great added value for numpy, and would provide a natural source of 
 new features or improvements for scipy and numpy.

Supposedly that's what scipy-central is for, but it's somehow not yet
reached critical mass and become a household name; I haven't looked
hard enough to have any hypotheses about why not. Surya Kasturi is
working on spiffing it up (see discussion on scipy-dev); I bet they
could use some help if you want to scratch this itch.
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