[IPython-dev] Announce: IPython Notebook Mac App (Europa Notebook)

[Brian Granger]

Ohh, but more importantly, I think the name of this is too close to the
ideas and abstractions present in the new name of the notebook "Jupyter"
and will run afoul of trademark issues. The potential for confusion would
hurt both projects. I would, politely ask you to consider changing the name
to something that has more distance from our trademarks. I know it may seem
silly for an open source project to worry about these types of things, but
we have run into issues in the past, and we need to be careful about this.
I should emphasize that at this point, this is just my own personal
opinion....this may be the type of thing that we need to bring up to the
project's steering council.

This is still very cool though!

Cheers,

Brian

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> Very exciting! If you aren't worried about making $, you might want to
> look at integrating with conda for all of the packaging things. I would
> hate to see you reinvent yet another packaging system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Andrew Gibiansky <
> andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'd like to announce the first release of an experiment I've been working
>> on: an IPython Notebook mac app. This is similar in spirit to [1] and [2],
>> but I've tried to iron out a few kinks people have had in installation as
>> well as bundle some of my favorite extensions.
>>
>> You can download it here: http://www.europanotebook.com
>>
>> Features:
>> - Completely bundled Python, separate from system python
>> - No external dependencies whatsoever – *completely* bundled
>> - Includes matplotlib, numpy, and scipy
>> - Includes a few extra JS extensions, such as cell hiding and the
>> wonderful Calico extensions [3]
>> - Integrated with Finder
>>
>> This is part of my ongoing work to make IHaskell (and Haskell) more
>> accessible – now that IPython is neatly packaged, I plan on adding the
>> IHaskell kernel and platform to the package. However, I figured that the
>> intermediate may also be useful to someone.
>>
>> Note: I was considering experimenting with making this a paid Mac
>> application. I don't know if this is worth money to anyone – if you have
>> opinions on this matter, let me know, I'm still trying to figure out what I
>> think about all of this.
>>
>> Thanks to all the IPython devs for creating such a great platform!
>> -- Andrew
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/mangecoeur/ipython-desktop
>> [2] https://github.com/liyanage/ipython-notebook/wiki
>> [3] http://wiki.roboteducation.org/ICalico
>>
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Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
@ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub
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