SIAM packages

[Boris Veytsman]

Hi Christopher

CD> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech at gmx.com>
CD> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 05:40:59 +0100



CD> Would you entertain the idea of engaging together purposively to
CD> the point where everyone engaged in leading the task of making
CD> free software moves forward long-term?

I am not sure TeXLive list is the proper place to discuss this - maybe
we should move the discussion to another place.  Anyway, long term
survival of free software is our goal.  TUG is a relatively small
organization, but we do provide grants to TeX developers, with the
requirement that the software developed is free, see
https://tug.org/tc/devfund/.

Let me put on another hat: in my day job I work for Chan Zuckerberg
Initiative.  Our Open Science program is aimed to promote the
universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge,
processes, and outputs.  As a part of this, we do fund open software
for science and strive to provide long term viability for it. See
https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/ and the list of funded projects in
https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/proposals/.  By the way, at least one
of the projects is TeX related.  Recently my colleagues and I released
a dataset of the software mentions in scientific papers
(https://medium.com/czi-technology/new-data-reveals-the-hidden-impact-of-open-source-in-science-11cc4a16fea2),
and we are going to use it to help to determine the funding
opportunities.  Of course scientific software is just a part of the
software world, but you must start somewhere.


CD> Incidentally, I have recently beheld the capability of
CD> implementing a number of Epidemiological Models (including network
CD> based preferential model), as free software.  If this could
CD> possibly excite you, possibilities can be entertained between us.

This looks interesting.
 



-- 
Good luck

-Boris