This is the companion web site for the Numeric Café Slack space.
Numeric Café is a public Slack for the discussion of programming Matlab, Octave, R, numeric Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas), and similar numeric and scientific programming languages.
Numeric Café is an experiment set up by Andrew Janke (me), to see if a public Slack makes a good discussion environment for scientific programming, with an aim to support both commercial and open source programmers, and a primary focus on Matlab. The café’s population is currently just me and a couple of colleagues. I’ll be hanging out there and dishing out free Matlab and Octave programming advice to whoever wanders in.
All are welcome at Numeric Café.
The Slack is at https://numericcafe.slack.com.
To get an invite, send an email to andrew@apjanke.net.
Or, if you have an email address at @octave.org, @gnu.org, @mathworks.com, or certain .edu addresses, you can create an account automatically on the signup page. If you have a domain you’d like added to that list, just email me at andrew@apjanke.net. There are no special requirements to get on the list; I just don’t want spammers.
As of May 2019, I’ve also set up a version of Numeric Café on Matrix/Riot. Matrix is an open source, decentralized version of Slack.
The Matrix Numeric Café is at https://matrix.to/#/+numeric-cafe:matrix.org. No invite is necessary; anyone can go there and join the community.
We’ll run both the Slack and Matrix versions of the Café for a while and see which, if any, gets traction.
We have a very informal Code of Conduct. If this Slack takes off, we’ll establish a formal one.
Café policies besides the Code of Conduct can be found on the Policies page.
The Code of Conduct and Policies can be summed up as “Don’t be a jerk”. We just need to flesh that out.
See the FAQ page.