Octave Funding

Funding for Future Development

The easiest and most secure way to make a contribution to the Octave project is to use the UW Foundation's secure online form.

IMPORTANT:To make sure that your contribution is directed to the Octave project and not to the general UW Foundation fund, you must do the following:

• Select "Other - detailed below" from the drop down menu in the "Designation" section of the form.
• Insert the following instructions into the text box:

  I/we wish to support development of the Octave modeling language, under the supervision of Professor James B. Rawlings of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UW-Madison.

If your contribution does not include these instructions, it will probably not find its way to our account for Octave.

If you wish to mail your contribution, complete this form and send it, along with a check (or credit card information) payable to the University of Wisconsin Foundation, to the address shown on the form.

Nearly all of Octave's development has been paid for using unrestricted funding from various sources, or from grants for other projects that have used Octave, but for which writing and improving Octave was not the central focus. Funding Octave this way has worked out reasonably well so far, but now we are looking for new ways to provide a more stable funding base for the future.

If you are aware of any funding opportunities within your organization that could help ensure that Octave development continues, please contact John W. Eaton.