Hi, I'm on the ATLAS mailing list, maybe some of y'all are too. Clint Whaley, the author of ATLAS, was asking for letters to support his tenure case. That is, letters saying that lots of us benefit greatly from his work - which is obviously true. Can we the numpy community produce such a letter? Who would it best come from? Cheers, Matthew
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 10:57 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
Hi,
I'm on the ATLAS mailing list, maybe some of y'all are too. Clint Whaley, the author of ATLAS, was asking for letters to support his tenure case. That is, letters saying that lots of us benefit greatly from his work - which is obviously true.
Can we the numpy community produce such a letter? Who would it best come from?
Cheers,
Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
If the place where he is seeking tenure does not know his name (i.e hasn't heard of ATLAS) then it is not a good place to seek tenure in :) .
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:25:18AM +0530, pratik wrote:
If the place where he is seeking tenure does not know his name (i.e hasn't heard of ATLAS) then it is not a good place to seek tenure in :) .
Scholars undervalue code and don't realise the difficulty and the amount of work it takes to produce. More than once I have had colleagues tell me that they valued a paper more than a software. It is important to show that such software gives a large benefit to the scientific community. Matthew, I didn't feel that I could do much to answer your call, but if you feel different, please let me know. Gael
Hi, On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:25:18AM +0530, pratik wrote:
If the place where he is seeking tenure does not know his name (i.e hasn't heard of ATLAS) then it is not a good place to seek tenure in :) .
Scholars undervalue code and don't realise the difficulty and the amount of work it takes to produce. More than once I have had colleagues tell me that they valued a paper more than a software. It is important to show that such software gives a large benefit to the scientific community.
Matthew, I didn't feel that I could do much to answer your call, but if you feel different, please let me know.
Well - thanks for the offer - Clint was asking for individual letters too, you could email and ask him? Are you on the math-atlas list? If not I'll forward you his request... See you, Matthew
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:49:10PM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote:
Well - thanks for the offer - Clint was asking for individual letters too, you could email and ask him?
I can do that, and ask around me.
Are you on the math-atlas list?
No I am not.
If not I'll forward you his request...
Please do that. See you, Gael
Hi, On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM, pratik <pratik.mallya@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 10:57 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
Hi,
I'm on the ATLAS mailing list, maybe some of y'all are too. Clint Whaley, the author of ATLAS, was asking for letters to support his tenure case. That is, letters saying that lots of us benefit greatly from his work - which is obviously true.
Can we the numpy community produce such a letter? Who would it best come from?
Cheers,
Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
If the place where he is seeking tenure does not know his name (i.e hasn't heard of ATLAS) then it is not a good place to seek tenure in :) .
It seems to me that we are so used to depending on ATLAS we forget just how much we rely on Clint to support and improve it. This seems like one of those rare times when it's fairly easy to give something back... Best, Matthew
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