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

[Andrew Gibiansky]

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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