{"id":6143,"date":"2016-07-27T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T08:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2016-07-30T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:02:40","slug":"call-for-information-why-do-good-software-people-leave-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6143","title":{"rendered":"Call for information: Why do good software people leave academia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also published over at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/blog\/2016-07-30-call-information-why-do-good-software-people-leave-academia\">Software Sustainability Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Stein, lead developer of the computer algebra system, Sage, and its cloud-based spin-off, SageMathCloud, recently announced that he was quitting academia to go and form a company. In his talk, William says &#8216;<strong>I can\u2019t figure out how to create Sage in academia. The money isn\u2019t there. The mathematical community doesn\u2019t care enough. The only option left is for me to build a company.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His talk is below and slides are at <a href=\"http:\/\/wstein.org\/talks\/2016-06-sage-bp\/bp.pdf\">http:\/\/wstein.org\/talks\/2016-06-sage-bp\/bp.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eIoYMB_0Xc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEvery great open source math library is built on the ashes of someone\u2019s academic career.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William&#8217;s departure is not unique. Here&#8217;s a tweet from Wes Mckinney, creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/\">pandas<\/a>, one of the essential data science tools for Python.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of the major reasons I dropped out of my PhD was because I didn&#8217;t believe academia could properly value software contributions<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wesmckinn\/status\/741744599731830784\">June 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are looking for similar stories; <strong>good research software people who felt that they had to leave academia<\/strong> because there wasn&#8217;t enough support, recognition or funding. <strong>Equally, we want to hear from you if you think academia is a rewarding environment for software development<\/strong>. Either way, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:rse-study@software.ac.uk\">rse-study@software.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also published over at the Software Sustainability Institute. William Stein, lead developer of the computer algebra system, Sage, and its cloud-based spin-off, SageMathCloud, recently announced that he was quitting academia to go and form a company. In his talk, William says &#8216;I can\u2019t figure out how to create Sage in academia. 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