Anyone who is an academic using SAGE should try to give a little talk on it to your department (unneccessary at UW of course). I did this and I generated a fair amount of interest from our grad students. The faculty weren't overwhelmed, they all wanted particular things that sage currently lacks - an easy linear programming interface, support for R, bifurcation analysis, etc.
I think the exhibit at the joint meetings will help a lot. We should do similar things at other meetings - I haven't had the time or energy to do that yet, but after the joint meetings maybe it will be easier for 1-2 people to set up a table at things like MathFest, SIAM, Society for Mathematical Biology, local MAA meetings, whatever. One of my goals is also to do more undergraduate research/development work with sage. One can view big unfergrad poster sessions as free advertising, at least to an academic audience. I agree with some other posters that eye-candy is crucial. I think a lot more could be done with Tachyon that might impress people. Also, exporting to PDF is very important I think, and currently seems a little broken (although maybe I am not doing it right). -Marshall On Aug 7, 4:22 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > The SAGE downloads during the last week are as follows: > > Linux Binary > 42 > OS X Binary > 42 > Source > 91 > VMware (= Windows) > 57 > > Total .................................. 232 > > The number of new downloads of SAGE per week have been roughly > constant during the last 2-3 months. The growth of SAGE is definitely > not what I hoped for during my talk at SAGE Days 4. Does anybody > have any good ideas about how to increase the number of people > downloading SAGE? My hope is that this question will spark a relaxed > but enthusiastic and positive open-ended brainstorming thread in which > a lot of crazy ideas appear. > > I'm laying a lot of groundwork (e.g., writing books, articles, etc.) > and I think other people are (esp David Joyner), but there is probably > much more that could be done. > > Please share your thoughts! > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
