Fernando Pérez of IPython fame wins the Free Software Foundation Award

Post by _delirium » Sun, Mar 24, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

takluyver wrote: post #6

naftaliharris wrote: post #3

I heard him speak at Stanford a few weeks ago. He made some great points about academia having a lot to learn from the open-source community. In summary, he said that academics should strive to make their research more open and reproducible, and that version control tools like git and presentation tools like IPython can help make that happen. The talk was broadly similar to the slides I found here: http://www.stanfor…

That's interesting - I've also noticed a big difference between 'release early, release often' in the open source world, and the long slow process of getting work reviewed and published in academia. I've been wondering: could we run acadaemia without the stamp-of-approval that is publishing in a peer reviewed journal? I.e. like releasing open source software, when you've got something you're ready to share, you just…

Post by takluyver » Sun, Mar 24, 2013, 10:28 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #12

takluyver wrote: post #6

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That's interesting - I've also noticed a big difference between 'release early, release often' in the open source world, and the long slow process of getting work reviewed and published in academia. I've been wondering: could we run acadaemia without the stamp-of-approval that is publishing in a peer reviewed journal? I.e. like releasing open source software, when you've got something you're ready to share, you just…

It's pretty common in many areas of science to release intermediate stuff frequently. In CS, for example, the typical practice is to publish papers a few times a year in conference proceedings, documenting current progress. You can also publish on arXiv, or in technical reports, if you have additional stuff that doesn't fit nicely in a conference. Journals don't really hold anything up, since they've been relegated t…

Post by phreeza » Sun, Mar 24, 2013, 12:44 PM UTC

fperez_org wrote: post #8

phreeza wrote: post #7

Glad to hear this, I use ipython on a daily basis, and chatted with him at euroscipy a while back, he is a very nice guy! I think he comments on here every now and then, too, so in case you read this: Thanks and congratulations!

I think I've only commented a handful of times, I'm not really a regular. But many thanks for the kind words, and to @profjsb for the generous writeup. As I tried to say at the meeting, this really goes to the whole team. I may have started IPython, but it's the combined talent, energy and dedication of a big team that makes it what it is today. This award is a recognition of all that work, I'm just here to pick it u…