Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

Hi, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:07, Matthew Brett wrote:

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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:

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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