Thank you all for your great comments. I'm working on a new draft now. You all have provided very useful suggestions.
On 5/29/07, Mark van Hoeij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, William, > > Thanks for getting started with this whitepaper project. I think that > what Bob Grafton wants to do with this whitepaper is to increase the > total amount of NSF money available for computer algebra. > > In fact, I think that the goal of every program officer is to get > more money for their program and for the NSF in general (they > receive many excellent proposals, and have limited funds, so they end > up having to decline many proposals that they do want to fund.) > > So the whitepaper needs to explain why it is a good idea for the NSF to spend > money on computer algebra. In other words, the text should explain why > money for computer algebra is good for science and society in general. > > However, the current version of the text does not do that. Instead, > the text takes it for granted that there is money for computer algebra, > and then argues that within computer algebra, funds should be distributed > differently (see line 9 on page 2 "Should not organizations such as > the NSF support open source systems rather than other systems?"). > > Mark > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
