Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-15 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: >>> >>> Your points are well taken.   However, my point is that this has been >>> discussed on an open mailing list.   Things weren't *as* open as they could >>> have been, perhaps, in terms of board selection.  But, there was >>> opportun

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-15 Thread Pierre Haessig
Le 15/02/2012 04:07, Bruce Southey a écrit : > The one thing that gets over looked here is that there is a huge > diversity of users with very different skill levels. But very few > people have an understanding of the core code. (In fact the other > thread about type-casting suggests that it is ext

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Bruce Southey
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the ot

[Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Travis Oliphant wrote: >> >> I have to agree with Mathew here, to a point. There has been discussions of these groups before, but I don't recall any announcement of this group. Of course, now that it has been announced, maybe a link to it should be prominent on the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/14/12 7:17 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > * Fund Open Source Projects in Science (currently NumPy, SciPy, > IPython, and Matplotlib are first-tier with a whole host of second-tier > projects that could received funding) > * through grants So, for example, would the Foundat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
>> >> Your points are well taken. However, my point is that this has been >> discussed on an open mailing list. Things weren't *as* open as they could >> have been, perhaps, in terms of board selection. But, there was opportunity >> for people to provide input. > > I am on the numpy, scip

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the >>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
> > I have to agree with Mathew here, to a point. There has been discussions of > these groups before, but I don't recall any announcement of this group. Of > course, now that it has been announced, maybe a link to it should be > prominent on the numpy/scipy pages(maybe others?). It should a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: >>> >>> When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list >>> for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the >>> other one.      I apologize if anyone felt left out.   That is not my >>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: >> >> There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would >> like to be part of those discussions. Let me know if you would like more >> information about

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
>> >> When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list >> for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the >> other one. I apologize if anyone felt left out. That is not my >> intention. > > My point is that there are two ways go to about

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would > like to be part of those discussions.   Let me know if you would like more > information about that.    John Hunter, Fernando Perez, me, Perry > Greenfield,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
>> >> There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would >> like to be part of those discussions. Let me know if you would like more >> information about that.John Hunter, Fernando Perez, me, Perry >> Greenfield, and Jarrod Millman are the initial board of the Foun

[Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > >> Hi Travis, >> >> It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to >> work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. >> >> I am slightly confused about ro