Hello. It could be a good idea to have a thread where people show their interest in new Julia packages with features non-existent yet, and other people can also get ideas about what packages to develop. For example, I haven’t been able to find any package for… Multiple imputation. Meta-analysis. …

[image] Juan: other people can also get ideas about what packages to develop It is very unlikely that people would develop and maintain packages for others (that they don’t need themselves). The bottleneck is not the lack of ideas.

[image] Tamas_Papp: It is very unlikely that people would develop and maintain packages for others (that they don’t need themselves). This is true. And also, there are things that I would use, and would be willing to contribute development time too, but am unlikely to undertake on my own. A …

Perhaps not professionals but students looking for a ideas for their projects or thesis.

[image] Juan: Perhaps not professionals but students looking for a ideas for their projects or thesis. If that’s the case they should looking to numerical differential equations! If any students are interested in numerical differential equations, automatic differentiation (Zygote), and the as…

[image] Juan: students looking for a ideas for their projects or thesis. … should, primarily, talk to their advisor :wink: Seriously, there tends to be little overlap between the “please implement some fairly standard methods” and interesting research projects. But students interested in the…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Seriously, there tends to be little overlap between the “please implement some fairly standard methods” and interesting research projects. But students interested in the latter will just write code without prompting. Indeed. Small amounts of standard methods can be used as…

A more useful thread might be if you have time or money to make half (or some fraction) of a particular package, but you need to find the other half to make it happen. You could look for help writing a Meta-analysis package. Otherwise packages are written when someone else needs them enough…

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