Hi Matthew, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Rocklin <mrock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do we have a clear understanding of who our userbase is? > Is SymPy being used for education? for research in academia? in industry? I > imagine the answer is that "yes, it's being used in all of those places".
Yes, that's the answer. > Does anyone know the extent to which it's used in these contexts? While > designing I'd like to know what audience I should target. It's hard to know or measure this, so I think the responses in this thread give you some idea. Speaking for myself and my own experience with people I know, I think a large group is physics and engineering students (I am a physics student myself), then physics or applied math faculty/research (usually people who need symbolic things to generate or represent some code in C/Fortran, be it linear algebra, or finite elements, ....). In industry, for example EPD (http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php) includes sympy. I think that large part of sympy users (and developers) are students. For example from the top 20 contributors in the last month (git shortlog -ns --after="1 month ago"), there are around 15 students and 5 non students. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
