[pypy-dev] bounties for pypy

[Ian Ozsvald]

I'll re-open this earlier thread...Didrik Pinte of Enthought is
offering to match my suggested £600 donation towards a numpy-pypy
project. He's offering it in a personal capacity (i.e. not as an
Enthought activity) out of his own pocket (and my donation would come
out of my Consultancy). His offer came out of a discussion on pypy's
merits at the London Financial Python Usergroup meet a few weeks back.

So, you've got £1,200 via two individuals ready as a gift towards
numpy integration, as/when someone can use the money. I won't promise
that my gift will always be available as my personal situation may be
changing in the next 6 weeks (so please - if you can use it - ask for
it soon!).

Regards,
Ian (UK)

On 29 June 2011 14:16, Ian Ozsvald <ian at ianozsvald.com> wrote:
> I'm glad this thread is up. Laura - I'm the chap from Armin's talk who
> offered a monthly retainer for a year towards numpy integration (in my
> mind I'm offering £50/month for 12 months). I spoke to you later and
> you mentioned the flattr site but having to do it each month is a bit
> of a pain (I know it is simple but I don't want to think about it...).
>
> So, for the record, I have £600 sitting here with someone's name on
> it, I'll account for it as a marketing expense or something out of my
> company. I'm a one man consultancy, PyPy doesn't directly help me as
> I'm an A.I./science researcher (so I need numpy, IPython, matplotlib
> etc) but I believe strongly that it will help all of Python (and me in
> part) over time, so it is worth pledging some of my earnings towards
> the goal of eventual numpy integration.
>
> If I can pledge it to someone or a project then that's cool, if I
> should just move the money to someone's account then that's cool too.
> I'm quite happy to have my name down as ContributorNumber1ForNumpy if
> it helps you spread the word.
>
> Ian.
> ps. I posted the v0.1 PDF of my High Performance Python tutorial this
> morning (it is based on my EuroPython training session). It has a
> section on PyPy and I'd happily accept input if that section should be
> expanded: http://ianozsvald.com/2011/06/29/high-performance-pyethon-tutorial-v0-1-from-my-4-hour-tutorial-at-europython-2011/
>
> On 29 June 2011 08:53, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>>
>>>The idea was also to possibly attract new developers ... for example, if
>>>there would be "10 days in money" for adapting py2exe, I am sure many wou
>>>ld
>>>jump to solve this puzzle.
>>
>> This is sort of a bad example.  Because py2exe embeds CPython, and
>> we wouldn't want to do that.  So what we would probably want to do is
>> to make some general tool that willmake a windows binary, or a
>> mac one, and get rid of the need for bzfreeze and friends.  So now
>> you are looking at a general embedding solution, and that is more
>> than 10 days worth of work.
>>
>> But I get  the idea.
>>
>> <snip>
>>>> my dream was of a trustee service: after somebody commits to do the wor
>>>k,
>>>the pledgers have to pay to a trustee. then the work is done. then the
>>>trustee pays the worker.
>>
>> This is one of the things I want to talk with fundedbyme about.  But
>> having an explicit trustee is a new idea.  I think the pypy core
>> developers are already rather well trusted in this community, but
>> this may be important to new developers who aren't as well known.
>> And it handles the problem' of 'I got sick and cannot do this  any
>> more' more gracefully than other solutions.
>>
>>>Hmmm.... a structure could be:
>>>
>>>- service provider does the technical stuff, as in:
>>>   # website
>>>   # collect pledges
>>>   # handle project description
>>>   # collect money
>>>   # distribute money after feature completion
>>
>> fundedbyme has sort of indicated an interst in doing this (except
>> they were talking about distribution before, and I was leaving
>> project description to the project, not outsiders).  I will follow
>> up on this when I get back home to Sweden.
>>
>>>- PSF / pypy-foundation / whateverfoundation provides the trust
>>>
>>>Thanks for confirming the need for such a thing!
>>>
>>>Harald
>>
>> Thanks once again for seeing a marketing solution that nerds like
>> us often miss.
>>
>> Laura
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