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I quited my job as well to work on

I have a lot of feelings, but I don't have a blog so far. I feel that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects and open source community should be better managed rather than donation. As for me, my plan is to start my own company and work on hardware .

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Awesome to hear that! Been following Glicol for a while because it is such a unique and bold project!

While Sonic Pi is also beautiful and much easier to start with as a beginner, I later found the hard way that its architecture is incredibly messy - lots of unrelated parts glued together with duct tape. The simplicity and cleanness of Glicol's code is what made me immediately love it!

Thank you for such a beautiful project!

I'm working on a hobby project at the moment, which at the moment is all about sequencing, and my long term plan is to integrate Glicol in some way - it's a great project, and I can't wait to start digging around further.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with hardware - I'm sure it'll be cool!

> I feel that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects

Can you expand on this? Why would universities fund these projects?

It doesn't make sense to me either. Universities barely even fund the lifecycles of their own research based software projects.

Maybe this doesn't apply to all situations. It's just that in my case, especially in music technology, I often see funding being allocated to things that I think are somewhat disappointing, and of course, that's just my subjective opinion. More often than not, it is an overall lack of funds. Many open source projects are actually of great academic value and worthy of study. In fact, many contributors to open source projects love blogging. I often feel more rewarded reading these blogs than dozens of pages of academic papers. I can clearly feel that I will have more time to make pure open source contributions during my funded Ph.D., or even when I am lecturing at the university. But now I have to balance it with some practical considerations.

I do think a similar thing to the GP, on my case it's because universities have the problem of "how to fund potentially society-changing projects that mostly go nowhere and depend on really qualified people" closest to solved than any other institution.

There's a lot of problems that I do think universities could be working on. Creating free software is one of them.

How can I follow in hackernews :)

This is awesome

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