On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:17 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, for me personally and SageMathCloud development, and also > support of Sage development at UW, this is a major blow. > All I can say is that I'm very bummed to hear this... I always admired your success in securing resources for Sage (with a bit of envy :) when I wasn't able to do so for IPython, and I only wish that today we could have resources for *both*. I tried to learn a lot from watching everything you did with looking for resources for Sage, and FWIW, I also haven't had great luck with the federal agencies. My only success with the NSF has been with stuff that's only tangentially related to ipython/scipy, whereas grants where i went "head first" into the software (even solicitations that were "software infrastructure" didn't fare so well). This is a cautionary note that, even though IPython and ODK are doing OK right now, the next cycle may well look very different for us too... Grant funding is a fickle business, which is why I continue wishing SMC sustained commercial success, so that it can have actual *revenue* to invest in Sage itself for the long haul. The question of how to fund our work in a sustainable fashion for the really long haul, as our teams get larger (and thus more expensive) keeps me up at night... All I can say at this point is that I hope the work we'll do on Jupyter, and indirectly with our colleagues at ODK (we'll have some of the Jupyter folks there too) will continue providing benefits to Sage! Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
