Linux Foundation Announces R Consortium to Support Millions of Users Around the World - Seite 2

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.