[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!