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I find the idea of you funding this via kickstarter really interesting. So, you're looking to get $1000 which, if all goes well you will have in 3 days. What ex

I find the idea of you funding this via kickstarter really interesting. So, you're looking to get $1000 which, if all goes well you will have in 3 days. What exactly do you plan to use the $1000 for? How do you see this pushing the project forward? Where are you hoping to go from here?

jph 11y ago
Thank you. Yes, I'm aiming to raise $1000, and we have 93% so far with 3 days to go. Kickstarter is really interesting to me for encouraging creativity; I personally fund many nonprofit projects at $1 akin to a thank you tip jar. I also donate more directly to long term open source projects. I'm trying the Kickstarter for Num as an experiment. The $1000 goal is covering some of my time to push the project forward, from a little hobby program to a real general purpose tool. Top improvements are adding descriptive stats (e.g. skewness, kurtosis), IO options (e.g. comma separated values, floating point precision), documentation (e.g. tutorial guide, helper guide), contactability (e.g. dedicated accounts on GitHub, Twitter), etc. Where I'm hoping to go from here is getting Num in the hands of more people, especially for developers, sysadmins, and hackers who want a quick way to do stats. Num is a great candidate for Unix distros because it's lightweight, simple, and runs on so many systems.