[ABE-L] R Consortium

[Francisco Cribari]

Fonte:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/06/linux-foundation-announces-r-consortium-support-millions-users


*Linux Foundation Announces R Consortium to Support Millions of Users
Around the World*

By Linux_Foundation - June 30, 2015 - 3:17am


Data scientists from industry and academic research will work together to
advance world’s most popular language for analytics and data science and
support the rapid growth of the R user community

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 30, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and
collaborative development, today announced the R Consortium. This new
organization will strengthen both the technical and user communities as a
Collaborative Project hosted at Linux Foundation.

The R language is used by statisticians, analysts and data scientists to
unlock value from data. It is a free and open source programming language
for statistical computing and provides an interactive environment for data
analysis, modeling and visualization. The R Consortium will complement the
work of the R Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Austria that
maintains the language. The R Consortium will focus on user outreach and
other projects designed to assist the R user and developer communities.

Founding companies and organizations of the R Consortium include The R
Foundation, Platinum members Microsoft and RStudio; Gold member TIBCO
Software Inc.; and Silver members Alteryx, Google, HP, Mango Solutions,
Ketchum Trading and Oracle.

“Millions of data scientists and academic researchers use R language every
day and want to collaborate with their peers to share visualization and
analysis techniques,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux
Foundation. “The R Consortium will promote the sharing of ideas and
accelerate findings that make R even better for business, research and
academic purposes.”

The R user community is vibrant with local user groups organized all over
the world. The R Consortium will work with this user community and the R
Foundation to amplify and focus the impact of this global community in
order to advance the project for all users and developers, including
millions more in the coming years.

“This is a great opportunity to harness the power of the thriving R user
community around the globe and advance the R language for everyone,” said
John Chambers on behalf of the R Foundation Board. “The R Consortium will
provide vital funding support for R services and development, made possible
by the Linux Foundation's proven track record of bringing large-scale
communities together. We are looking forward to working with both
organizations.”

The open governance model for R Consortium includes an infrastructure
steering committee that will direct technical decisions and oversee working
group projects and a board of directors to guide business decisions.

R Consortium is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and complements
other data-oriented collaboration activities hosted by the organization.
For example, the recently announced Apache: Big Data conference gathers the
leading infrastructure projects that make up a Big Data computing
environment.

R Consortium is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Collaborative
Projects are independently supported software projects that harness the
power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and
ecosystems. By spreading the collaborative DNA of the largest collaborative
software development project in history, The Linux Foundation provides the
essential collaborative and organizational framework so project hosts can
focus on innovation and results. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects
span the enterprise, mobile, embedded and life sciences markets and are
backed by many of the largest names in technology. For more information
about Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects, please visit:
http://collabprojects.linuxfoundation.org/

For more information about R Consortium, please visit:
http://www.r-consortium.org

Comments from Members

Alteryx
“Alteryx is excited to be a founding member of the R Consortium as it will
provide a forum to support the R user community and extend collaboration
across the developer community,” said Dan Putler, Chief Scientist, Alteryx.
“The consortium will further our goal of providing access to R-based
advanced analytics to the broadest range and type of users."

Google

“We've got over a thousand Googlers using R, and it is critical to many
projects,” said Tim Hesterberg, Senior Quantitative Analyst, Google. “We
love that it is open source, so we can connect to our internal data
processing tools. We're happy to support the R infrastructure as part of
the R Consortium.”

Ketchum Trading

"R is a critical component of our quantitative financial modeling
environment, and Ketchum Trading is thrilled to be a founding member of the
R Consortium and assist the world-wide user base by contributing to
industrial-strength collaboration and support to the R community," said
Petri Fast, COO, Ketchum Trading.

Mango Solutions

“Mango Solutions has been helping customers to leverage R in a commercial
environment for over a decade. The R Consortium represents a vital step
change, enabling more enterprises to adopt this excellent technology, and
Mango Solutions is proud and excited to be involved in this exciting new
chapter as a founder member,” said Matt Aldridge, CEO, Mango Solutions.

Microsoft

“The R Consortium will support the R community by helping companies that
rely on R -- and their data scientists and developers -- to work together
to answer some of today’s most complex technology and research questions,”
said David Smith, R Community Lead, Microsoft. “We’re excited to galvanize
this initiative as a founding member.”

RStudio

“Millions of people use R every day. It is the natural time to provide this
global community with dedicated support to amplify their work and drive
collaborative opportunities with the developer community,” said J.J.
Allaire, RStudio's CEO and Founder. “We’re excited to be at the forefront
of this important work.”

Oracle

“Data science is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in business,
science, and technology, where the R language and ecosystem is a major
enabling force,” said Neil Mendelson, Vice President, Big Data and Advanced
Analytics, Oracle  “The R Consortium is an important enabling body to
support and help grow the R user community, which increasingly includes
enterprise data scientists.”

TIBCO Software Inc

“Data scientists use R to drive business decisions. The community needs the
infrastructure in place to accelerate this critical work, and the R
Consortium does exactly that,” said Brian Gentile, Senior Vice President
and General Manager of TIBCO Analytics, TIBCO Software, Inc. “We’re looking
forward to this collaboration and are excited to be among the founding
members.”

About the R Consortium

The R Consortium is a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization and Linux Foundation
Collaborative Project dedicated to the support and growth of the R user
community. The R Consortium works with and provides support to the R
Foundation and other organizations developing, maintaining and distributing
R software and provides a unifying framework for the R user community.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the
growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000,
the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and
promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and
collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its
members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a
neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative
Projects, Linux conferences including LinuxCon, and generating original
research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and
collaborative software development. More information can be found
atwww.linuxfoundation.org.



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is grey, but green is life's glad golden tree." --Goethe (Faust)
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