Hi, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:07, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Gommers >> <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This is just to follow up on a dead thread of mine a little while back. >>>> >>>> I was asking about letters for Clint Whaley's tenure case, from numpy, >>>> but I realized that I don't know who 'numpy' is :) >>>> >>>> Is there in fact a numpy steering group? Who is best to write >>>> letters representing the 'numpy community'? >>> >>> At http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone there's a list of people under a >>> big header "steering committee". It seems to me that writing such a >>> letter representing the community is one of the purposes that >>> committee could serve. >> >> Ah - yes - thanks for the reply. >> >> In the interests of general transparency - and given that no-one from >> that group has replied to this email - how should the group best be >> addressed? By personal email? That seems to break the open-source >> matra of everything on-list: >> >> http://producingoss.com/en/setting-tone.html#avoid-private-discussions > > Having project-relevant *discussions* on-list doesn't preclude getting > someone's *attention* off-list.
Yes, that's true. My worry was that, having put the question on the list, and not had an answer, it might send a bad signal if it was obvious that I had only got a reply because I'd asked for one off-list. > I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you > would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its > contents. Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but I will do my best to say something sensible. Any objections to a public google doc? See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
