[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy/SciPy Documentation Marathon 2008

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Andreas

2008/5/17 Andreas Klöckner <lists at informa.tiker.net>:
> On Samstag 17 Mai 2008, Joe Harrington wrote:
>> To head off another pedagogical meltdown, the University of Central
>> Florida has hired Stefan van der Walt full time to coordinate a
>> community documentation effort to write reference documentation and
>> tools.
>
> This is truly excellent news. One question though: I didn't see Travis's Numpy
> book mentioned at all in your writeup, so I am wondering where its role in
> the doc effort is. Its home page states that it will be opened on Sep 1,
> 2008, apparently in time for classes, and it already provides parts of what
> you propose.

Travis has generously pemitted us to use any part of his book in the
documentation.  We shall be making use of his kind offer!  As far as I
am aware, the code to his book will be released at SciPy 2008
(http://conference.scipy.org).

Regards
Stéfan