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Talk Python To Me

#34: Continuum: Scientific Python and The Business of Open Source

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8635 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What if you built a product that dramatically improved how hundreds of free, open source Python libraries worked together, gave it to the world for free, and then built a thriving business on it? It's the open-source dream really, isn't it? In this episode, we talk with Travis Oliphant from Continuum who did exactly that!

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What if you built a product that dramatically improved how hundreds of free open source

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Python libraries worked together and gave it away to the world for free?

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And then built a thriving business on top of that.

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It's the open source dream, really, isn't it?

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This week we talk with Travis Oliphant from Continuum, who did exactly that.

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This is Talk Python to Me, Show number 34 recorded October 26th,

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2015.

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I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers. I'm a developer in many senses of the word,

0:32.6

because I make these applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music. I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

0:41.4

In both cases, it's about design patterns.

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Anyone can get the job done.

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It's the execution that matters.

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I have many interests.

0:49.1

Sometimes you can flake.

0:50.7

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

0:58.5

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

1:02.2

Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm.

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And follow the show on Twitter via At Talk Python.

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This episode is brought to you by Hired and DigitalOcean. Thank

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them for supporting the show via Twitter where they're at Hired underscore H.Q and at DigitalOcean.

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That's right, DigitalOcean has joined Talk Python to me as a sponsor. Thank you guys for

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supporting the show. You rock. Hi everyone. Thanks for listening today. Let me introduce Travis

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