Dear Pythonistas, Our open-source software project (PyDSTool) has money to hire an experienced Python programmer on a short-term, per-task basis as a technical consultant (i.e., no fringe benefits offered). The work can be done remotely and will be paid after the satisfactory completion of the objectives. The work must be completed by the end of April, when the current funds expire. The basic work plan and design documents are already laid out from previous work on these tasks, but the finer details will be negotiable. We plan to pay approximately $2-3k per task, depending on the exact code design and amount of time required.
Prospective consultants could be professionals or students but must have proven experience with SWIG and both python and numpy distutils, and be willing to write a short document about the completed work for future maintenance purposes. We have a template for a simple contract and invoices can be relatively coarse-grained. As an open-source project, all contributed code will be BSD licensed as part of our project, although it will retain attribution of your authorship. We have two objectives for this work, which could be satisfied by two individual consultants but more likely by one: (1) This objective involves completing the implementation of automated compilation of C code into DLLs. These DLLs are dynamically created from a user's specification in python. The DLLs can be updated and reloaded if the user changes specifications at the python level. This functionality is crucial to providing fast solving of differential equations using legacy solvers written in C and Fortran. This functionality is relatively independent from the inner workings of our project so there should be minimal overhead to completing this task. We need to complete the integration of an existing code idea for this objective with the main trunk of our project. The existing code works as a stand-alone test for our C legacy solver but is not completed for our Fortran legacy solver (so that numpy's distutils needs to be used instead of python distutils) and needs to be integrated into the current SVN trunk. The design document and implementation for the C solver should be a helpful template for the Fortran solver. (2) We need a setup.py package installer for our project that automatically compiles the static parts of the legacy differential equation solvers during installation according to the directory structure and SWIG/distutils implementation to be completed in objective (1). If the consultant is experienced with writing python package installers, he/she may wish to negotiate working on a more advanced system such as an egg installer. PyDSTool (pydstool.sourceforge.net) is a multi-platform, open-source environment offering a range of library tools and utilities for research in dynamical systems modeling for scientists and engineers. Please contact Dr. Rob Clewley (rclewley) at (@) the Department of Mathematics, Georgia State University (gsu.edu) for more information. -- Robert H. Clewley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Neuroscience Institute Georgia State University 720 COE, 30 Pryor St Atlanta, GA 30303, USA tel: 404-413-6420 fax: 404-413-6403 http://www2.gsu.edu/~matrhc http://brainsbehavior.gsu.edu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
