IPython Project



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Front matter



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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly Physics Department
IPython Project
@ellisonbg



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IPython Project

IPython is an open source, interactive computing environment.



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History

1996: Fernando Perez and Brian Granger start graduate school in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
2001: Fernando starts IPython and releases IPython 0.0.1. This evolves into the current day IPython console:



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2005: Brian joins the IPython effort and writes the first version of IPython.parallel with an undergraduate student from Santa Clara University, Min Ragan-Kelley.
2010: Brian and Min create PyZMQ, a high performance networking/messaging library as a foundation for IPython's distributed architecture.
2010: Fernando, Brian and Even Patterson write IPython.kernel and the QtConsole.



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2010: Min writes PyZMQ based IPython.parallel.
2011: Brian starts the current version of the IPython Notebook.
2011-2013: IPython development explodes, many new contributors.

From 2005-2011, we also made numerous failed attempts to build the IPython Notebook. We learned lots of important lessons in software engineering along the way.



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Fernando Perez Brian Granger Min Ragan-Kelley Thomas Kluyver
Matthias Bussonnier Jonathan Frederic Paul Ivanov Evan Patterson
Damian Avila Brad Froehle Zach Sailer Robert Kern
Jorgen Stenarson Jonathan March

In addition to these core developers, IPython has a larger development community of $\approx100$ contributors.
We estimate that IPython has $\approx1\pm0.5$ million users across all areas of science, engineering, finance, data science.

Funding

Volunteers (mostly)
NASA, DOD/DRC, NIH
Enthought
Rackspace
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- 1.15 million dollar grant for 2013-2014
- PIs: Fernando (UC. Berkeley) and Brian (Cal Poly)
- Full time on IPython: Min, Paul, Thomas
Microsoft
- 100,000 in August 2013
- Through NumFocus
- Full time on IPython: Jonathan

Styling



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Fernando Perez	Brian Granger	Min Ragan-Kelley	Thomas Kluyver
Matthias Bussonnier	Jonathan Frederic	Paul Ivanov	Evan Patterson
Damian Avila	Brad Froehle	Zach Sailer	Robert Kern
Jorgen Stenarson	Jonathan March