Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numerical Mathematics Consortium vs. scipy and numpy

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Christopher Barker apparently wrote:=20
>> how does one get the open source community to be=20
>> represented in this kind of thing?=20
>=20
> http://www.nmconsortium.org/FldRte/?id=3D70&page=3DDownloads

Were you pointing us to any particular document there?

Full membership (that is, with voting rights) requires a $2500.00 a y=
ear=20
membership fee. I think it'll be a bit tricky for an open source proj=
ect=20
to raise that kind of cash. The result is that you have to buy your w=
ay=20
into the group, which favors commercial entities.

Granted, they have operating expenses, and $2500 isn't all that much,=
=20
but it's probably too much for open-source groups to get representati=
on.

An associate membership is $250./year, which is far more manageable, =
but=20
then you don't get voting rights:

"""
The Associate Membership with no voting rights will have full access =
to=20
the consortium=92s output and be engaged in some of the consortium=
=92s=20
activities and is typically for the user community, both academia and=
=20
industry ($200 annual fee).
"""

The SciPy community is not a "user" group, it's a developer group. th=
ere=20
are other open source projects worth of representation, such as the G=
NU=20
Scientific Library.

Oh well.

-Chris


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