[Numpy-discussion] scientific Python featured in GitHub keynote

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:58 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:19 AM Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:09 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Thursday I had the pleasure to be at GitHub Satellite, together with
>>> quite a few other maintainers from projects throughout our ecosystem, and
>>> see NumPy, Matplotlib, AstroPy and other projects highlighted prominently
>>> in Nat Friedman's keynote. It included the story of the black hole image,
>>> and the open source software that enabled that image. It's the first 21
>>> minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbJkn4uRL4.
>>>
>>> Also, we now have "used by" for each repo and the dependency graph (
>>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/network/dependents): right now there are
>>> 205,240 repos and 13,877 packages on GitHub that depend on NumPy. Those
>>> numbers were not easy to get before, so very useful to have them in the UI
>>> now.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the link. That was a lot of material to digest, do you have
>> thoughts about which things we should be interested in?
>>
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> The triage role will be very useful (not yet available except as beta,
> being rolled out over the next couple of weeks). It nicely fills the gap
> between "nothing" and "full write access".
>
> The "used by" and the dependency graph features will be very useful when,
> e.g., writing proposals. It's not 100% complete (no OpenBLAS link for us
> for example) but it's better than anything we had before.
>
> I'm still wrapping my head around "sponsors". It's aimed at individuals
> and in general not the best for for NumPy and similar size projects I
> think, but there's a lot to like as well and there may be more coming in
> that direction. For those who are interested in funding/sponsoring, this is
> a nice reflection on the sponsors feature:
> https://nadiaeghbal.com/github-sponsors
>

Okay not entirely accurate. We can and did just add a "<heart> sponsor"
button:) It links to our donate section on numpy.org and to our Tidelift
page.

Cheers,
Ralf
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