tpoisot
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8 years ago Hi @gajomi -- thanks for the input.
Well, that is certainly one really cool project. I am always surprised to see how many different interfaces there are for LV models, and that despite being a key for community ecology, it has no common platform. :clap: And I'm sure it would make a cool software note...
That being said -- the project doesn't really have a "goal" now. I was using it to (1) take notes on an eventual workshop / training session, (2) experiment with Julia and Judo for document generation and (3) try to get other ecologists into Julia.
So if you want to contribute, then by all means go ahead! It's open source for a reason, so if there is anything in particular that you want to write, feel free to submit a pull request. The contents currently reflect mostly my own biases (/interests?) as a community ecologist, but anything else would be much appreciated.
I really like the idea of a primer on Julia for ecologists and would be interested in helping out with such an effort. It was not clear to me, however, if this was meant to be a individual project or limited to certain contributors (don't want to step on any toes!). If it is open to anyone who might like to contribute, I would be interested to see a scope/goals of the project so I could decide if and how I could add to the effort.
At risk of abusing the "issues" system with a bit of advertisement, I will say that I stumbled across this repo while googling for "julia Lotka-Volterra" while trying to find links for a Lotka-Volterra module I eventually mean to publish. The goal is to eventually be useful for ecologists for modeling LV systems, but also to expose an api that can (through the power of parametric types/multiple dispatch) take advantage of the long tail of results about particular LV systems in the literature. It would be cool if this personal goal overlapped with the goals of the project here :)