Willing to contribute to SciPy & NumPy ...
Hi, I would like to seriously start contributing to NumPy and/or SciPy, as much as I possibly can. Because NumPy & SciPy are new to me, I'm not so sure whether I could be of some help. But if my help is welcomed, and if it makes sense to ask: "What could I best contribute to?", then perhaps some background information about myself would be useful ... *ACADEMICS* I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, along with some mathematics and physics courses. For the mathematics, I did some Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Fourier series, Fourier & Laplace transform. In Physics, I did up to and including a first course in Quantum Mechanics. I also did some undergraduate research work, that involved computational high energy physics (proton-proton collision). The work was done with some Mathematica packages (FeynArts <http://www.feynarts.de/>). *INDUSTRY* I currently work in the software industry and for the past few months, have been performing both software development and system administration tasks. In terms of object-oriented programming, my main experience is with Java. I'm a beginner with Python. I used Python at work to automate the reverse-engineering process of some Java programs. Career-wise, one of my goals is to go into scientific computing, and use Python as the main programming language, and to perhaps pursue graduate studies in Computational Physics, hence my current interest for contributing to NumPy & SciPy. If you wish to know more about me I have a LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainbellemare. *DOCUMENTATION* Documentation-wise, I can use LaTeX. For instance, my resume, which is attached with this email, was written with LaTeX. It's noteworthy to mention that I like to work on documentation, as long as it balances with coding work [?]. If that makes any sense to you and you have ideas on projects that I could contribute to, please let me know, and I'll be very happy to do my very best to contribute. Best regards, -Sylvain
On 31 March 2011 07:27, Sylvain Bellemare <sbellem@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to seriously start contributing to NumPy and/or SciPy, as much as I possibly can.
I'm sure that your help will be welcomed! A good place to get started is helping out with documentation (see http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/Front%20Page/). SciPy has plenty of work required - you'll probably learn your way into the code that way. Another place to look is http://www.scipy.org/Developer_Zone. It's worthwhile learning how to work with Git and Github if you want to get patches accepted more easily. Cheers, Scott
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Scott Sinclair <scott.sinclair.za@gmail.com
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On 31 March 2011 07:27, Sylvain Bellemare <sbellem@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to seriously start contributing to NumPy and/or SciPy, as much as I possibly can.
I'm sure that your help will be welcomed!
A good place to get started is helping out with documentation (see http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/Front%20Page/).
Actually, according to the Jacob Kaplan-Moss's talk at PyCon this year ( http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4881071/) (with which I am inclined to agree), documentation is probably not the best way to get started. Do check out the developer zone, maybe search the the open tickets and see if there are any bugs you want to tackle. Maybe write some tests for untested code you find. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask. And don't forget to test and document your own code! Be Well Anthony
SciPy has plenty of work required - you'll probably learn your way into the code that way. Another place to look is http://www.scipy.org/Developer_Zone. It's worthwhile learning how to work with Git and Github if you want to get patches accepted more easily.
Cheers, Scott _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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Anthony Scopatz
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Scott Sinclair
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Sylvain Bellemare