Could Julia Computing be a way to sponsor the core team to do full-time development? How is it going to work when there are consulting jobs that bring in revenue, yet take time away from core development?
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > You may have seen today’s Hacker News story about Julia Computing: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516298 > > As you all know, we are committed to Julia being high quality and open > source. > > The existence of Julia Computing was discussed a year ago at JuliaCon > 2014, though we recognize that not everyone is aware. We set up Julia > Computing to assist those who asked for help building Julia applications > and deploying Julia in production. We want Julia to be widely adopted by > the open source community, for research in academia, and for production > software in companies. Julia Computing provides support, consulting, and > training for customers, in order to help them build and deploy Julia > applications. > > We are committed to all the three organizations that focus on different > users and use cases of Julia: > > 1. The open source Julia project is housed at the NumFocus Foundation. > http://numfocus.org/projects/ > > 2. Research on various aspects of Julia is anchored in Alan’s group at > MIT. http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/research.php > > 3. Julia Computing works with customers who are building Julia > applications. http://www.juliacomputing.com/ > > Our customers make Julia Computing self-funded. We are grateful that they > have created full time opportunities for us to follow our passions. Open > source development will never cease. > > You may have questions. Please shoot them here. We will respond back with > a detailed blog post. > > -viral > >
