At 08:19 AM 8/17/2007, Chris Calloway wrote: >bhaaluu wrote: > > Perhaps these concerns should be directed to either the > > maintainers of Python.Org ( http://python.org/ ), or to > > the author of the Software Carpentry Course? > >I sent a pointer both to the lead maintainer (Dr. Greg Wilson at Univ. >Toronto) and to Titus Brown who, along with Chris Lasher, is having a >Software Carpentry sprint at SciPy'07 at Caltech tomorrow. So this is a >timely observation. :) Titus wrote back that it "sure does sound wrong," >so I would bet on it getting fixed tomorrow. > >SWC has been around since 1998. It started as an 800KUSD Dept. of Energy >project at Los Alamos for a design competition with cash prizes. It >resulted in several tools including Roundup and SCons. It received >27KUSD in funding from the PSF in 2006. It is taught to scientists at >Univ of Toronto, Indiana Univ, and Caltech. Dr. Wilson wrote about it in >the magazine of Sigma Xi: > >http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/48548 > >It has moved around a lot. It's current official home is on scipy.org: > >http://www.swc.scipy.org/ > >There are several links to older SWC URLs on python.org. None of them >are in the wiki where they could be easily fixed, however.
Chris, THANK YOU, especially for the link, <http://www.swc.scipy.org/>. My thanks also to Alan, Wesley, and bhaaluu. What a great list Tutor is! An appreciative noob, Dick Moores _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
