Re: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/commercial-support.html

[edmund ronald]

William, as this is an important entry gate for customers, you might wish to clarify what the "user value" is before the text is set in stone. Eg. explaining that this allows bringing up a pool of instances for teaching, sidesteps installation and maintenance issues etc.

Edmund 

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:45 PM William Stein <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

Would the following HTML snippet work for the website:

<li>
  <p>
    <a href="" href="https://cocalc.com/doc/octave.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cocalc.com/doc/octave.html"><strong>CoCalc</strong></a>
is an online service that provides GNU Octave via Linux Terminals,
Jupyter Notebooks and X11 desktops, with full support for realtime
collaboration.  Moreover, CoCalc features a course management system
that is tailored for teaching courses online.
  </p>
  <p>
    The company Sagemath, Inc. develops and operates CoCalc.
    You can start working with the <a href="" href="https://cocalc.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cocalc.com">online
service</a> for free
    and upgrade later for a better experience.
    You can also run your own CoCalc on-premises.
  </p>
</li>

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:07 AM William Stein <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks everybody!  We're working on writing a paragraph to add to the site.
>
>  Best regards,
>
> William
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 1:58 AM Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/17/20 8:08 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:07 PM Colin Macdonald <address@hidden
> > > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On 2020-05-16 7:57 a.m., Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > >     > CoCalc looks like a great tool for teaching and universities.  Your
> > >     > software is free and open-source, one can run CoCalc on-premises, you
> > >     > let people try the cloud version for free, and you seem capable of
> > >     > providing commercial support for Octave.  To my knowledge there are no
> > >     > formal criteria to be listed on this page yet.
> > >     >
> > >     > If there are no objections by jwe and other maintainers, I would be
> > >     > happy to add an entry for your company to the Octave website.
> > >
> > >     Hi Kai,
> > >
> > >     I also vouch for William, having worked with Sage and the precursors of
> > >     CoCalc in the past.  He does indeed provide excellent support.  At
> > >     least
> > >     at that time, he was a true Free Software believer (which I mean as a
> > >     compliment!)
> > >
> > >     I'm not a "core maintainer" but I certainly have no objections to this.
> > >
> > >     Colin
> > >
> > > The more, the merrier! I have seen nice things written about support of
> > > Octave in the Sage system, btw.
> > >
> > > Edmund
> >
> >
> > Dear William,
> >
> > The echo so far was positive.  The absence of comments by major Octave
> > maintainers I interpret as "no news is good news" ;-)
> >
> > Could you please write a short paragraph describing CoCalc, then I can
> > add that paragraph to the Octave website.
> >
> > Kai
>
>
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> William Stein
>
> CEO, SageMath, Inc.
> https://cocalc.com



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Best Regards,
William Stein

CEO, SageMath, Inc.
https://cocalc.com