Matthias and Brian: I appreciate your taking the time to consider my concerns and to respond. A few short thoughts:
1) Prioritization and starting somewhere: I understand that this is a big problem and that free (as in speech) has its limitations 2) Contributing: I sincerely wish I could contribute to open source projects. I just don't have the computing chops. I'll see about making a donation (free as in beer) 3) Contracting for a private deployment and service: Agreed and when the tools are farther along with respect to my employer's business, I'm open to trying to get the funding to work with suppliers when there's a real chance of purchasing their services 4) JupyterLab: I have installed it and already I like it. It uses the screen better and I appreciate the simple things like "Save As" and the dockable doc browser is a nice touch. I hope there's a variable inspector and breakpointing feature in the works. This is one of those areas where Matlab earns its fees - their UI is wonderful 5) Containers: There must be something to them. Nature has chimed in: http://www.nature.com/news/software-simplified-1.22059 "Software simplified: Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research." A final thought before I go back to lurking. I read the successful funding proposal on the Jupyter site and was taken aback by 'computational narrative.' Story over substance is bad news (cf. Edward Tufte and Powerpoint) and if that corporate management mindset leaks into academia, it's all over. There is nothing more beautiful than proof. With thanks for the positive discussion [and apologies to Heath Raftery for hijacking his thread], --- JBB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/380518a3-6a0b-4976-ba9a-20cea0c31032%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
