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# 2024-04-24 NumPy community meeting
- Time: 7:00pm UTC
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**Present:** Nathan Goldbaum, Mars Lee, Brigitta Sipocz, Ralf Gommers, Matti Picus, Mateusz Sokol, Tyler Reddy, Sebastian Berg
## Follow-up from the last meeting / discussions
_For the notes from the previous meeting, visit: https://github.com/numpy/archive/blob/main/community_meetings/community-2024-02-28.md_
- (after rc1 and maybe rc2) How to announce 2.0?
- Blog post on scientific python (probably)
- Slightly longer news article on numpy.org
- Not in a hurry, final release is a while away.
- Can also add a short snippet into the project readme "on github".
- (idea) Targeting the NumPy C API with a header-only install.
- We're down to only this for platform/build-dependent code: [numpy/_core/include/numpy/_numpyconfig.h.in](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/numpy/_core/include/numpy/_numpyconfig.h.in)
- Seems feasible indeed, no one sees a real blocker right now at least
- NumPy accepted for 2024 Google Season of Docs
- Publishing question: Could the finished comics be sold under a formal publisher?
- Scenario: Comic available on NumpPy website and sold paper copies
- Not sure about licensing
- With GSOD, produced work is udner an open license and copyright under Mars. As long as source is still available, comics can be sold
- Similar to source software available and selling packaging and installation
- Conflict: if publisher requests exclusivity agreement
- For the next NumPy Community survey, after the comics are put on the NumPy website, could we add questions about the effectiveness of the "How to Contribute to NumPy" comics?
- Mars will ask Inessa
- Release date: we are mainly waiting for other packages to release for compatibility.
- Let's do an RC2 in 1-2 weeks, after OpenBLAS 0.3.27 can be included (Matti is herding CI here at the moment)
- Final release unlikely to be feasible before the second half of May; even that is optimistic.
- Next month there is a deadline for the NASA ROSES grant. Ralf will be sending out a proposal to the steering committee for a renewal of the grant.
- Better is finally setting up the mailing list for all maintainers, and sending the request for input there.
## New topics
- Making the test suite separately installable:
- See https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/26289
- Motivation is binary size reductions (touched on in a previous community , see [gh-25737](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/25737))
- Also eliminating unnecessary kernels from OpenBLAS distribution
- StringDType SciPy talk accepted
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