On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 5:09:43 PM UTC-4, William wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:16 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave > >> I can't help feeling you could (should) have made some direct inquires > > > > I have. These things can take a while. > > Hi, > > I just sat down with the executive director of University of > Washington's Internal Audit office and some of his staff. They > have years of experience with ethics audits in practice, how the rules > are interpreted, and who is liable when problems arise. > > It will be possible to use the computers at UW to support Sage > development and other related open source projects and in support of > mathematical research. There will be several official steps that > need to happen to formalize this, and the details aren't sorted out > yet. But they will be. > > Things like sagenb, sagemathcloud, and the sage cell server are not > ok, since there is so little constraint on the actual users and usage. > However, things like trac, the wiki, hosting the sage downloads, etc., > which directly benefit the Sage/math community, and benefit everybody > equally (since they are open source) are going to be encouraged, as > long as we take appropriate care in who gets accounts. Moreover, the > 20 16-core computers (with lots of RAM and SSD's) that were used for > SageMathCloud will be repurposed for build/testing of Sage (and other > open source software) and for math research computations -- this is > actually quite a lot of hardware. > > So we can end the "state of emergency". :-) >
This is great news! I am glad to hear that trac, the wiki etc will remain at a University! Do you know already what will happen to the combinat server? It would be great if that could remain in use for research related computations as well. Best, Anne -- 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.
