[IPython-dev] Results of last year's user survey
Brian Granger
ellisonbg at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:11:30 EDT 2014
Does gitter support private rooms and private direct messaging. We use
those things on a daily basis and I wouldn't consider moving to
something w/o it.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't know you guys were dropping 2.6 support so soon.
>
> Regarding hipchat, I hate to say it, but nobody uses it because it
> sucks. I personally hate it every time I try to use it. The interface
> is just the worst for people who are not registered. You guys should
> take a look at gitter.im. It integrates with GitHub, it's free, and it
> has nice things like backlogs on chats for everyone.
>
> I'm a little surprised about the academia vs. industry usage. I
> suspect there were just more respondents from the academic side than
> from industry.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Thomas!! this is really helpful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> You may remember filling in a survey of IPython users last year. I finally
>>> got round to writing up the results from that, and you can now view them on
>>> the website:
>>>
>>> http://ipython.org/usersurvey2013.html
>>>
>>> Significant findings include:
>>> - A rapid changeover to new IPython versions
>>> - More people report using the notebook than the IPython terminal interface
>>> - 22% have used IPython on Python 3.3.
>>> - Nearly 60 people reported using IPython with the Spyder IDE
>>> - People install IPython from a variety of sources, but no one installation
>>> method was used by more than half of respondents.
>>>
>>> I read through all of the suggestions and comments written in the survey,
>>> and forwarded some groups of them to people with specific expertise. The
>>> write up includes some notes on requests that I saw multiple times.
>>>
>>> Finally, we're grateful to the over 100 people who used the comments and
>>> suggestions field to thank or compliment us. :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Brian E. Granger
>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>> bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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