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+# Project status (10/05/2020)
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+This project has certainly been the most important thing I have ever created, but I could not keep up with maintaining it as well as I wanted. This project allowed me to achieve the biggest dream I had, and that I never though I would have been able to achieve in my life, which was (some may laugh) starting a life and career in Europe. 
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+For about 10 years, I had worked on this project almost every day of my life.
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+But with the new life, came new steps to be climbed, I had new responsabilities and things to go. Then I started a PhD and had to focus on it so I could not keep up maintaining the library. I even tried to hire freelance developers to help, and it worked to some extent, but at some point I did not have the resources anymore. Eventually, I developed anxiety of even opening the issues page or checking my e-mails because I feel I might have left so many people behind. Then, a few months near my defense, Microsoft announced they wanted to make ML.net, which would eventually mean that Accord.NET would become obsolete.
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+I've also published in, and attended, the most important machine learning conferences in the world, and in academia, no one has ever heard of the project. People may even laugh or mistreat you if you mention you have developed something in C# for machine learning, as everyone (understandably) uses Python (I myself only use Python to do my work, and while I love C#/.NET, there is nothing that can compete with Python/Pytorch nowadays). 
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+In the past months, I have been pondering about archiving the project. To avoid that, I am willing to make someone who would like, also an administrator of the project.
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+I am also willing to change the license of any file where I am the single author (you can check the copyright headers in each file) to MIT so people can reuse individual pieces of code more easily. Anyone who becomes administrator is welcome to slice the parts of the project that still make sense to exist (e.g., the FFmpeg wrappers, statistical distributions, statistical tests and the simple transforms like PCA) and even start new libraries (hopefully in .NET Core) providing only them if wanted.
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+Cesar
+10/05/2020
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