The Europe/NumFOCUS situation would be a good thing to reach out to Andy or Leah about.
Jason On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:10 AM Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:03 PM Harald Schilly > <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 3:12:12 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: > >> > >> Certainly R and probably other similar mathematical FLOSS does have > foundations... > > > > > > I just came across this thread. Many years ago I had the idea to setup > an european "sage foundation" similar to the one of R. My main thoughts > where that this gives european users a way to organize us over here, while > the UW parent foundation works well for the US. The R foundation [1] is > situated in Vienna, Austria (incidentally where I live :-) and it's > absolutely not not a bureaucratic hassle to set up a nonprofit organization > like that over here. The real challenge is to find a couple of people who > stick together and run it (a dedicated core team). Going with NumFocus > sounds like a good idea, but it's also an US entity. > > I believe I've heard--unless I'm misremembering something else--that > there is some interest in setting up a European-based NumFOCUS > companion organization. That would be a good thing if so. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
