Do the people who develop Julia or mantain Julia-discourse or reply complex question get any money for that? I mean, have you been hired by a university or organisation to do it? Or by a private company? Or do you spend your time for free because you like it or because you think you will make a pr…

Quite a number of people work in academia. Typically, they don’t get any money directly for developing packages or Julia itself but it’s sort of part of their work because Julia is (potentially) great for their research. However, I wouldn’t say they are “hired by a university […] to do it”. They are…

[image] Juan: hired by a university or organisation to do it? Or by a private company? I suspect this would be quite rare. I guess most people provide help here for the public good. This is attitude is quite common in the sciences and academia though.

[image] carstenbauer: And this indirectly includes developing tools. Well, that’s maybe a best case scenario but not reality. No funding body or university board will support you as an academic in developing tools, unless you can publish the tools as packages with software papers that get cit…

[image] mkborregaard: It’s true that a lot of the best work is done by PhD students procrastinating from their thesis, but mostly it is exactly that. It’s true that a lot of the best work is done by PhD students who understood exactly what their PhD was about. There, fixed that for you …

It’s probably fair to say that most of the people who contribute to Julia do so out of some combination of clear-eyed self interest (i.e., finding the best tool for the job), intellectual challenge (it’s fun to build a programming language and community around it), and desire to contribute meaningfu…

I chose Julia to do my thesis, but after graduation my department decided to extend it’s use of Julia. So they asked me to answer other students question and train them and making Julia available over the University High-Performance Computation Center. So I accept it and I am doing it for free right…

I think that’s a fair position to have for a tenured professor, and essentially how I think of my own minor contributions to the ecosystem, but among PhD students and postdocs, few feel safe enough. I would not advice any junior researcher to spend significant amount of time contributing to the lang…

Oh, yes, I forgot to name PhD students, as me :slight_smile:

All my Julia creations and contributions have been done on my own free time. I answer questions online sometimes for fun or to help solve a technical problem related to mine, and I have created some packages out of necessity for doing some of my own research work, which I don’t mind sharing for free…

Do you get money from Julia?

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carstenbauer December 3, 2018, 12:19pm 4

See also Steven’s post here: Funding for Julia - #2 by stevengj

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