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

[Brian Granger]

Thanks for understanding. More than willing to talk offline about this. I
am going to be out shopping and getting ready for Christmas much of the
weekend, but feel free to private chat me on gitter this week (ellisonbg).

Cheers,

Brian

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Gibiansky <
andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Sure, no problem! Let's have an offline discussion further about this – I
> intentionally avoided using "IPython" or "Jupyter" in the name anywhere,
> but am happy to change things.
>
> -- Andrew
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian E. Granger
>>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>>> @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub
>>> bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian E. Granger
>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>> @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub
>> bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
@ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub
bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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