On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> As some of you know, I've been working for... quite some time now to >> try to secure funding for NumPy. So I'm excited that I can now >> officially announce that BIDS [1] is planning to hire several folks >> specifically to work on NumPy. These will full time positions at UC >> Berkeley, postdoc or staff, with probably 2 year (initial) contracts, >> and the general goal will be to work on some of the major priorities >> we identified at the last dev meeting: more flexible dtypes, better >> interoperation with other array libraries, paying down technical debt, >> and so forth. Though I'm sure the details will change as we start to >> dig into things and engage with the community. >> >> More details soon; universities move slowly, so nothing's going to >> happen immediately. But this is definitely happening and I wanted to >> get something out publicly before the conference season starts – so if >> you're someone who might be interested in coming to work with me and >> the other awesome folks at BIDS, then this is a heads-up: drop me a >> line and we can chat! I'll be at PyCon next week if anyone happens to >> be there. And feel free to spread the word. > > > Excellent news. Do you have any sort of timeline in mind?
The exact timeline's going to be determined in large part by university+funder logistics. I thought it was going to happen last year, so at this point I'm just going with the flow :-). The process for hiring staff definitely takes a few months at a minimum; with postdocs there's a little more flexibility. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
