[scikit-learn] Next Sprint

[Andreas Mueller]

On 1/10/19 10:34 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 02:09:58PM -0500, Andreas Mueller wrote:
>> Gaël, does the foundation have funds and do you want to use them?
>> And/or do you/INRA have funds you want to use?
> Neither myself nor Inria has fund to use outside the foundation. The
> foundation can commit money if needed. We tend to prefer spending it on
> paying senior people to work on the project, as it is the bottleneck (we
> are still recruiting, by the way), but such a sprint is important.
>
> We will also apply for sprint-specific funding sources. If we can
> lighten-up your budget, so that you can pay awesome people to work on the
> project, it is a good thing.
>
Ok good to know. And I totally agree about using foundation money
to pay senior people.
Though discussion time between senior people is also a serious 
bottleneck imho ;)

Any sprint specific funding you're thinking of? Google gave in the past, 
right?
I could cold-email some people (two sigma, bloomberg?) but not sure if 
that's very promising.