Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1

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On 01/ago/2012, at 10.21, address@hidden wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:47:03 -0700
> From: Ed Meyer <address@hidden>
> To: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>, Octave Maintainers
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> Subject: Re: Can we work together to improve Octave?
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I have attempted to contact you before. I'm going to try again.
>> 
>> I see you're using Octave for two of the Coursera courses, and we
>> think that's great. I would also like to stay in contact with you
>> about possible future GNU Octave development.
>> 
>> I would like to know that Octave is serving the Coursera students
>> well, since they now form a large part of Octave's audience. To this
>> end, I would like to suggest that we work together on Octave issues.
>> Possible ways in which Coursera could work with Octave are: bug
>> reporting[1], patches, or donations[2] for supporting its development.
>> Of these, bug reporting should require the least involvement from your
>> part, but would nevertheless be useful for us and your students. We
>> would also like to point you to some exciting new developments in
>> Octave[3], such as a GUI and JIT compiling, as being worked on by our
>> Google Summer of Code students.
>> 
>> We recently had a mini conference[4, 5] where several prominent Octave
>> developers got together to discuss the future of Octave. I would like
>> to point this out to you in order to inspire other possible sources of
>> collaboration.
>> 
>> I hope you find this of interest,
>> - Jordi G. H.
>>  GNU Octave developer
>> 
>> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bugs.html
>> [2] https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave
>> [3] http://planet.octave.org/
>> [4] http://wiki.octave.org/OctConf_2012
>> [5] http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/octconf-2012-report/
>> 
> 
> bravo, Jordi! These folks represent a huge potential customer base for us
> and I think
> that a little effort on our part to make sure octave suits their needs will
> pay off in the
> long run.
> 
> My daughter goes to Stanford and when we go there in the fall I was
> thinking about dropping
> in on some of the profs that are using octave to see if there is any way we
> can help.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Meyer

Jordi, 
Maybe also inviting one of these guys using Octave for online courses to 
OctConf 2013 
woud be a good idea, what do you think?
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