On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:03 PM Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@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+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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
