{"id":1772,"date":"2009-10-04T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2009-11-09T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:23:40","slug":"the-future-of-the-carnival-of-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"The Future of the Carnival of Maths?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carnival of maths has been around for a while now, recently reaching it’s 58th edition<\/a>, but its organisation has become erratic of late. The first carnival was put together by Alon Levy<\/a> who organised it ever since, continuing even after he officially hung up his blogging hat. The mathematics blogging community owes Alon a big debt of gratitude so I hope you all don’t mind if I say “Thank You” to Alon on all our behalves.<\/p>\n

Recently, however, it seems that Alon’s other life commitments have caught up with him since the main Carnival page<\/a> has not been updated since Februrary and the Carnival submission form<\/a> indicates that the carnival has closed.\u00a0 I’ve also tried to email him a couple of times (before I hosted the 58th carnival for example) but as yet have received no response.\u00a0 Alon – if you are reading this then I hope you are doing OK.<\/p>\n

So, onto the question posed in this post’s title.\u00a0 What should the future hold for the Carnival of Maths?\u00a0 I have thought of a few possible options as follows<\/p>\n