From: Robert Love <rblove@...>
Date: 2006-02-20T03:43:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible Ruby-centric NASA SBIR area

In <dsvfnr$qqb$1@vilya.larc.nasa.gov> Bil Kleb  wrote:
> I've been asked to write a small topic area
> for our SBIR (small business innovation research)
> program, which is basically a method to fun small
> businesses in $70k, $500k, and $2-3M chunks for
> promising research topics.  SBIR's premise doesn't fit
> too well with open source, but I thought it would
> be worth a try.  For more information about SBIRs, see
> http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov
> 

Is thre any way to produce a Ruby version of SciPy under this funding?  
A set of ruby bindings to all the numerical libraries.  It is a very 
general goal that in turn would allow the development of tools for 
specific purposes.