I think this is great. Our startup has similar issues. We want to do innovative work, but that work needs funding, so we also do some consulting/training to pay the R&D bills. It can be a challenge to find the right balance though, so beware :)
Given the position of Julia Computing, another potential source of revenue for you is helping companies (like mine) with recruiting. If you kept a database of Julia developers looking for employment opportunities, firms (like mine) would be willing to pay up to 3 months salary for "finding fees". Speaking of which, do you know anyone in Hong Kong? :) One question I have though is about how to balance open source versus proprietary development. There are currently Julia packages we're using that could use some professional development to clean up and make production worthy. If we pay developers to clean up an existing package, it feels weird to just give the work we paid for away. Any thoughts on how I should think about this? I probably just need some education and am open to suggestions. It would be interesting if Github issues could be given a $ value, i.e. "resolve this issue and receive $x in fees". This could be an effective way to prioritize :) On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 4:20:15 AM UTC+8, Viral Shah 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 > >
