Nerves! Awesome!!
pdgonzalez872
pdgonzalez872
So, after looking around, it seems that a great place to showcase these papers would be in the ErlEF’s website! I created this issue Add academic papers page · Issue #87 · erlef/website · GitHub explaining what the goals were and what I tried, and just merged a patch with links from this thread. If you come across papers we should add, please post them here or create an issue at the erlef website. Let’s showcase the cool stuff we have 
Thanks everyone for helping!
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adolfont
Elixir programming language evaluation for IoT
Geovane Fedrecheski
Laisa C. P. Costa
Marcelo K. Zuffo
School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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pdgonzalez872
@entone imagine a scenario where we could “sponsor” students (like you in this case) to use Elixir/Erlang in your thesis/paper. Say before you started your paper, you looked around and found out that you could get $X stipend amount to use Elixir/Erlang in your project. Maybe there is an application process you must do to get this “grant”.
I have a couple of questions:
- Would this be frowned upon in academia?
- How do you think this would be received?
- If acceptable, do you think this would increase the number of papers using the Elixir/Erlang?
cc: everyone else in this thread please let me know your thoughts as well.
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entone
Some clarification. I am not a student, I worked for a non-profit, The National Association of Realtors, and my co-worker was a PHD student in Architectural Engineering. I had started this project before he arrived, but he had been working on low-cost environmental sensors for quite a while. We combined forces, and the Elemental Platform was born, and the paper is a result of his thesis.
My co-worker can definitely code, but mostly Python, I’ve tried to get him into Elixir/Erlang, but as he’s not really a programmer, he hasn’t found the time.
However, regarding your original question about “sponsoring” students and research, I think it’s a fantastic idea, I see no downside at all. In fact, I’d be interested in seeing it being applicable outside of academia. I do a lot of research as well, and run a non-profit based on the Elemental platform.
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