I've authored a Packt book - it isn't of high quality.

It was a good experience, but they don't provide the resources needed (help and monetarily) for doing good work.

Yeah. I figured I wouldn't do it for the money, since authoring tech books brings in pennies for the author.

I'd like to do it for career sake. "Hey, I love JS so much, I wrote a book on a popular JS framework."

http://gist.io/ is kinda like that.

There's a lot of claims (and rightfully so) about the right losing the demographic game to the left. If there's one area where the right may be on the "right" side with young people is privacy.

Big opportunity for them if they play this correctly.

Analysts in finance/consulting certainly haven't had to upgrade their skills, but analysts in media/marketing definitely have had to.

Certainly there are people in this space who can't do much beyond spreadsheets, but there are many analyst now who use python/pandas or R to do work.

A few projects now have a "good as a first PR" tag for issues... This is great for helping people get started.

One example is Composer with its "Easy Pick" tag: https://github.com/composer/composer/issues?labels=Easy+Pick...

I think this approach is much better than a generic "I want to contribute" button. Puts the burden on the newbie.

Maybe there should be a standard tag? Similiar to versioning http://semver.org/

Really? I don't think I've seen that before, but that sounds perfect for me. Do you have any advice on how to find such issues?

Some projects that have gone through the GSoC process have triaged bugs/features like this. I'm trying to remember them now - blame Monday.

http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora is pretty much the best "How to Contribute" example I've seen.

Thank you!

Fernando Perez (the force behind IPython) has done several in depth tutorials at various pydata confs... I'd start there.

Thanks for this working on this project. I've used it before with success.

I don't think python on hadoop is the answer for complex map/reduce jobs, but this project has fit an niche for me.

This is my biggest gripe, otherwise I like it. Visually the design is pretty, but in terms of representing information it leaves a lot to be desired.

As always, it's how it's presented that matters.

I always ask for general demographic information when I interview with a company. It isn't about being sexist (well maybe it is against men)... I just don't want to work with a bunch of mid-20s white males. Not enough diversity of thought.

Disclosure: I'm a mid-20s white male.

I love laughing at self righteous people like you. You see the world as though people of different sexes and skin colors all think differently but at the same time think all white males think exactly the same without even realizing how ridiculous that is. What, do all white males in their mid 20s grow up in expensive suburbs? Get over yourself already. You're like that white guy that goes to Bubble Tea places and acts like he's into "ethnic" food.

This is an unnecessary personal attack.

Like it or not, women and minorities often have different life experiences than white men. There is a range of experiences within each group, and there is overlap, and economics play a big role, but it's a leap to assume that someone looking for a diverse workplace is self righteous or clueless.

I wasn't replying to the OP. The person I replied to had to put a Disclaimer in their post to inform everyone that he is a white male in his mid 20s. If you don't see the ridiculousness in that then I can't help you.

At this point, I might argue for IPython Notebook.

The question I was going to make has been asked here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17483271/is-there-a-way-t...