I would have a "buy 3 year membership" paypal button for $50 on the julia front page. this way, you also will have some running list of people particularly interested in the language. if this exists, I will join.
---- Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@gmail.com) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 Director, UCLA Anderson Fink Center for Finance and Investments Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ Exec Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ Editor and Publisher, FAMe, http://www.fame-jagazine.com/ On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote: > Julia is part of the NumFocus foundation. We don't have a concept of > membership, but it can accept grants and donations. We haven't done anything > along these lines yet, and are certainly open to ideas. > > -viral > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:20:12 AM UTC+5:30, ivo welch wrote: >> >> >> my note was partly a joke, partly a warning. the R community started out >> very nice, too. many still are. but some of the tone has shifted towards >> the obnoxious. the weirdest part is that there are some people who seem to >> enjoy *really* helping users, all the while being somewhat insulting. it is >> my (incomplete) understanding that internal strife in the core development >> team has become negative, too. it will be up to the julia core team to set >> the community standard and watch themselves and the community to keep it >> alive. >> >> this reminds me: for those of us who cannot contribute, is there a julia >> foundation membership? it would not be a bad idea to have us using users >> get used to contributing, too. >> >> >> >> >