Looking to get involved

[georgemarklow]

Hi Team

I'm looking for a GitHub project related to scientific computing to get involved in and considering a few options. I'm a C#/TypeScript developer with a bachelor's degree in maths, and about 12 years of coding experience, interested in linear algebra, interpolation, root-finding, calculus and statistics topics. Are there any additional features or upgrades that are needed in mathnet-numerics C# projects? I did have a question if anybody was looking for a TypeScipt port of the code with unit testing, as I really enjoy working with TypeScript too.

I will apply for part-time/distance master's degree programmes in scientific computing as a mature student over the next year or so (I graduated over a decade ago). Any contributions I can make to the open-source community will help strengthen my application as a mature student.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks vm
George

[strMikhailPotapenko]

Hello George. I have similar interests to you and made a pull request related to a work project last year. It seems that the maintainer of this repo has not been active since 2023 so that PR was not merged. Obviously, they are under no obligation to continue to maintain the library so it's totally understandable. However, I was disappointed because I use this library for my work and would like to see it continue to grow and have a community around it.

Pursuant of that my company, Corning Inc, is going to be forking this repo and maintaining it from within our Github organization. We are in the process of working this out internally before we can make our fork public on Github. If you are still interested, we would love to work with you and I believe there are a number of features that have already been discussed here or new ones that we can brainstorm that would be good additions to the library.

If you like, I can reach out to you again once our fork is public to talk more!

-Mikhail

[jkalias]

Hi Mikhail,

Please let me know if/when your company decides to fork this repo, I would love to contribute there as well, since as you have said this repo seems to be stale for quite some time.

-John

[strMikhailPotapenko]

Hello John,

We would love to have your contributions and I will absolutely let you know once we are ready! If I'm not mistaken, you are the current maintainer of MathNet Spatial? I have to admit that I haven't maintained an open source project like this before although I do have some experience in leading and working on closed source development teams. I would welcome any suggestions and feedback.

One question for you on that note: are you opposed in principle to signing a CLA?

My company's current policy requires this and we have been having some discussions internally about it. I can imagine that due to the nature of open source contribution culture, some people may be hesitant to sign a CLA with a corporation. Do you find in your experience that this could be a barrier for getting community engagement?

-Mikhail