I am one of the more recent people to join Julia Computing, so that I am now able to work full-time on Julia. It's been a great way to merge a mutual hobby – of contributing to the open-source Julia project – with day-to-day responsibilities.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:55 AM Scott Jones <scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very good to know! I assume Alan is staying on as an MIT professor, > evangelizing Julia to bright young MIT students. ;-) > What about Keno and Jameson? > Digging around shows they are still students (which surprised me a bit... > I’ve been very impressed with their comments and contributions). > I’d hope that they would think that working full time on Julia at JC would > be a great gig after they finish their pesky degrees... > > The more major contributors are working full-time at JC (or another > Julia-centric company), the easier I think it is to “sell” using Julia is > to my clients... > > -Scott > > > On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 10:35:41 AM UTC-4, Viral Shah wrote: > >> The co-founders include the three of us, Alan, Keno, and Deepak who is >> helping develop the business. The team strength is closing in on 12. We >> will be updating our website shortly with all this information. On the open >> source part, we have reaffirmed our commitment here. >> >> As I said in my earlier email, we will also write a blog post addressing >> all issues raised here. It seems that most of the questions have already >> been raised, and some also discussed. We’ll put out a well articulated >> response in the next few days, so that everything is clear and in one >> place. >> >> -viral >> >> >> >> > On 13-May-2015, at 7:42 pm, Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Yes, it was clear that you were also a cofounder of Julia Computing, >> what was not clear, just from your GitHub info, if you were actively >> working for JC, or for MIT, or splitting your time between them. >> > I do hope there’s enough funding so that you’ll be able to work full >> time on the language. >> > Besides Jeff, Viral, and yourself, who else is currently working full >> or part-time for JC? (just thinking about the initials... is this the >> “Second Coming", at least for computer languages? ;-) ) >> > This isn’t meant to be overly nosy, however, it is important >> information for people like me who are trying to convince their clients >> that 1) any issues they have in Julia can be addressed, 2) Julia will be >> around for the long haul, and 3) Julia will not suddenly split into an open >> source version and a closed “enterprise” version that has all the good >> stuff... (it kind of seems that way with Aerospike, for example). >> > I really do wish all of you all the best, and for a very long future >> for Julia! >> >>