Re: An Octave advertisement

[Jake]

I'd front some money for some advertising, I'm very interested in
getting more people involved even though I haven't gotten too involved
myself yet. I really think that with some work on the quality of plots
(not a fan of GNUplot)and creating some wrapper functions for some of
the missing MATLAB functions (some of the ODE functions for example),
Octave could entirely replace MATLAB. Who wants to pay that much money
for numerical software anyway? Personally I find it offensive that a
lot of the educational institutions in the US are still using MATLAB
instead of Octave for just simple MATLAB work. It's a waste of taxpayer
money.

-Jake

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:41:58 -0500
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is my experience that most people who use Matlab at least are aware
> of some "free Matlab clone called Octave", outside of that most people
> within the larger technical community may have heard the word "Matlab"
> and know it's some sort of mathematical program, but have no idea what
> Octave is.
> 
> I am flirting with the idea of putting up an Octave advertisement on
> LWN, a news site dedicated to free software. I am curious to see if
> perhaps there is some kernel hacker or similar out there who while not
> directly involved with numerical work, perhaps is still interested in
> helping us with this or that feature of Octave. The text ad has a
> character limit of 120, so I was thinking:
> 
>     GNU Octave needs hackers and numericists! If you can do C++, GNU
>     autotools, Fortran, OpenGL, or MATLAB, help us out!
> 
> and a link to the Help Wanted page or its equivalent in hg. Note that
> due to the character limit, there is no space to explain what Octave
> is, so I put the word "MATLAB" in there as an attention-grabbing hint.
> 
> The ad is quite cheap and seems appropriate for LWN. Of course I'll
> pay for it myself.
> 
> How does this sound?
> - Jordi G. H.


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Jake <address@hidden>