Perhaps the issue of documentation in French would be a suitable topic for the Sage Days in Nancy in October?
John 2008/8/30 Philippe Saade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi again, > > to sum up the two days i spent at the Maths' Teachers' Summer School, > i must say that my presentation of Sage produced mainly two reactions > (understand : AND, not XOR) : > ** real interest in the Software because of it's potentialities. > People were willing to use it. > ** real need of tutorials and ready to use worksheet with well > documented "used case". > > Here are some of the fonctionalities that are asked for : > > ** Help page in french, and of different/selectable level > ** the possibility of restricting available commands (for use in > classroom) (some kind of 'profile') > ** real CMS functionality (why doesn't Sage use Zope as a whole ? ZODB > are fine but Zope would nicely manage authentication, roles, > templating, etc) > ** a 3D animation module > ** some type issues are hard to understand for beginners (a command > giving back a float not considered as a Sage Real, etc...). It is hard > to get a complete view of the types used by Sage and "what goes where > and when" > ** Definitely, a rich tutorials site in french, with step by step > explainations for on topic at a time. > > For that last point, i believe it would be nice to have a script that > transforms a worksheet into an HTML document, not using any Table > layout but structured in such a way that it would be possible (with > CSS rules) to fix a two column presentation (as in the quicktour part > of sagemath.org) or a one column presentation. > > > Some people asked me if Sage would include GIAC. I'll read all the > thread about GIAC on this list before saying more. > > > Last but not least : most people were impressed by the quality of > conception and the vast amount of maths topics covered by Sage. > That's because of YOU. > > I thank you in there name. > > P. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
