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Re: The future of my involvement with the Octave project
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etienne |
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Re: The future of my involvement with the Octave project |
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:09:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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Hi John,
thank you very much for all the work you have put into Octave and
congratulations on the results; I know I have already written this a few
times, in the past 10 years, but it is worth being said once more.
Now a silly question: will gifts made with the "funding" page of Octave
(http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/funding.html) be affected to Octave
development after Nov. 30th?
Thanks once more,
Etienne
On Tue, October 7, 2008 07:15, John W. Eaton wrote:
#
# For more than 16 years now, a large part of my job has been "work on
# Octave". It's been a great experience and I would love for it to
# continue. However, my employment has always been dependent on
# external grant funding and that has been harder to come by in the last
# few years. As things stand now, funding for my position will end on
# November 30. So unless something unexpected happens in the next month
# or two (perhaps there is a generous patron out there?) I'll be looking
# for a job, and I expect that my time available to work on Octave will
# be severely limited.
#
# What does this mean for the future of Octave? That depends on what
# the members of the community decide to do.
#
# I think we have an amazing group of people working on Octave. That
# most of you have done all of these great things working as volunteers
# in your spare time is even more incredible to me. I'm very grateful
# for the things you are doing as it is unlikely that Octave would be
# where it is today without all the people who have contributed to
# Octave's development over the years.
#
# Octave is free software, so whatever happens it will not go away, and
# at this point the community is more than capable of keeping the
# project moving forward even without my work. Although I plan to
# remain active in the community, I can't say for sure how much I will
# be able to do if I am forced to find another job. But since that's a
# definite probability, I thought it would be best to provide some
# advance notice so that we might discuss possible solutions, and
# prepare for the changes that are likely to come. That's one of the
# reasons that I've been trying to move more things to public servers
# (like savannah) so we can share the work more easily or others can
# take over without much trouble if that turns out to be necessary.
#
# Finally, if you have any ideas for ways to fund Octave development,
# I'd certainly like to discuss them.
#
# Thanks,
#
# jwe
#
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