I am writing to follow up on this. The University of Washington has now stopped accepting donations to the Sage Foundation fund. People looking for ways to donate in support of Sage will need to find other avenues for that, and I encourage people to create those avenues if they know how. Of course (speaking as chair of the UW Department of Mathematics), we still welcome all contributions to support UW mathematics ;)
John On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 5:39:22 AM UTC-7, Sylvain Corlay wrote: > > Setting up the NumFOCUS EU is work in progress. We will be posting more > information on it very soon. > > Best, > > Sylvain > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 5:22:53 AM UTC+2, Jason Grout wrote: >> >> 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....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:03 PM Harald Schilly >>> <harald....@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+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/46223393-29d5-4af3-870d-da93e75d0fc9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
