[Edu-sig] Looking back on OSCON XVI

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Sun Aug 31 12:12:31 CEST 2014


In a message of Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:13:21 -0700, kirby urner writes:
>On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>
>> >In sketching out the Python ecosystem in broad brush terms, is it fair to
>> >say NumPy gets a lot of US investment whereas PyPy is more an EU pet
>> >project?  Or is that too broad brush?
>>
>> Too broad.  In investment terms, PyPy gets from _everywhere_,
>> including lots from the USA.  But PyPy core contributors are still
>> mostly from not-in-the-USA ... unless things have changed in the last
>> 6 months while I have been busy elsewhere.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>OK.  I was partly asking because I know the US government is putting funds
>directly into Blaze:
>
>http://continuum.io/blog/blaze
>
>I don't know if the US government itself directly pays for PyPy
>development, but my impression is the EU itself does.
>
>Kirby

The EU has in the past.  But there hasn't been an EU grant proposal written 
for a while.

Laura



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