Re: Funding - Specifically identifying allocations

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Miquel Cabanas wrote:

> do you mean a bounty like the Gnome bounty at
> http://www.gnome.org/bounties/index.html?

That is an excellent system.  It's great to see corporations contributing 
to this.  I would think that we all benefit.

What I've been doing is hiring students, training them on Octave and 
having them write code for me.  Once this code is complete, usable and 
documented, it will be turned over to Octave-Forge.  It is much easier for 
me to get money to hire students than to get money to pay someone outside 
my university for services.

Related question:  We had a plan to develop a system for delivering add-on 
packages for Octave.  This would complement Octave-Forge.  How is that 
coming along?

Mike



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