[hypeibole]

For other people confused about the meaning of BP in this context, it means Benjamin Pierce Fellow.

It appears this talk was given in the context of the Benjamin Pierce Centennial Conference:

http://www.math.harvard.edu/conferences/bp/

[williamstein]

Yes, exactly. And I haven't given the talk yet! I'm giving it 2 hours from right now, and I'm pretty nervous.

[travisoliphant]

Good luck, William. You have my full support! Thank you for all the great work on Sage and associated tools!

[banach]

As a an academic contributor to a mathematical software project (much less mature than Sage), I want to thank you for giving this talk. Hope it starts a much-needed public discussion about this topic.

[cossatot]

Well you've got a lot of respect from this community, as well as a good bit of understanding of the limitations inherent in academia. Best of luck!

[niels_olson]

Best of luck with the talk! I'm way out in the hinterlands of your world but it struck me how small this world may be: as an MD doing some applied ML stuff out in San Diego I have actually troubleshot a bug with Fernando Perez, and know a few other folks from the early days of what became Jupyter.

May you have fair winds and following seas.

[acidflask]

I'll be there for moral support, if I'm allowed to crash!

[williamstein]

Please come!

[apeace]

Your company is going to be a huge success. You're clearly passionate about this software. And now you'll be driven by the need to feed yourself :)

Congratulations!

[hypeibole]

I'm replying (I hope) just in time to wish you luck with your talk, which seemed to me, as a mathematician, incredibly interesting.

Also I'd like to wish you luck with your endeavors!

[ddumas]

It's an exciting thing to announce, and I'm sure it will go well. Best of luck.

[nomoch]

As a contributor to sage : thank you for starting an amazing project, and sorry for not being able to convince my university to adopt it.

[math_and_stuff]

You have my support as well!

[blatant]

Good Luck!

[catnaroek]

Peirce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peirce. Not to be confused with Pierce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_C._Pierce.

[matt4077]

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Pierce, my other childhood role model. No, I wasn't too popular :)