Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-24 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Sebastian Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 17:35 +0100, Matthew Brett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk >> wrote: >> > Hi Matthew, >> > >> > > it seems to me that we

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-22 Thread Sebastian Berg
On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 17:35 +0100, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk > wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > > > > it seems to me that we could get 80% of the way to a reassuring > > > blueprint with a relatively small amount of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-22 Thread Stephan Hoyer
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Marten van Kerkwijk < m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote: > My sentence "adapt the typical academic rule for conflicts of > interests to PRs, that non-trivial ones cannot be merged by someone > who has a conflict of interest with the author, i.e., it cannot be a >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-20 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Matthew Brett > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Charles R Harris >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 13, 2017

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-19 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> As some of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-19 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Okay, a few more details :-) The initial funding here is a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to UCB with me as PI, in the amount of $645,020. There's also another thing in the pipeline that might supplement that, but it'll be ~6 months yet before we know for sure. So keep your

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-15 Thread Benjamin Root
Great news, Nathaniel! It was a huge boost to matplotlib a couple of years ago when we got an FTE, even if it was just for a few months. While that effort didn't directly produce any new features, we were able to overhaul some very old parts of the codebase. Probably why the effort was so

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith 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

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-14 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith 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

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-14 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
Awesome! This is really great news. Does this mean is several person-years of funding secured? -CHB > On May 13, 2017, at 10:47 PM, Nathaniel Smith 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

[Numpy-discussion] UC Berkeley hiring developers to work on NumPy

2017-05-13 Thread Nathaniel Smith
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