On Jan 8, 7:41 pm, "David Joyner" <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
Hi David,
> I just posted more pics
> tohttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/sagedays/ams2009/images.html
>
> I think Sage gained a lot of publicity this year both by being at
> the booth but also having an MAA panel discussion and an AMS session.
> The panel discussion was good to be able to meet others in the
> teaching community. I think this is related to Sage development because
> projects like the educational open source software webworks has a
> funding model which seems to be successful. I think Karl Crisman said he
> would try to follow up on that.
Cool.
> A few people I met at the booth said they were interested in Sage development
> but more stopped by saying that either they or their students could not afford
> Maple or Mma and was looking into a cheaper quality alternative. The
> collaroration
> possibilities of the Sage server was a strong "selling point" for
> smaller schools
> which could load sage on a webserver.
>
> There were some really good talks at the Sage session. For example,
> Marshall's talk had amazing graphics and Robert Miller's talk was very
> well attended
> (with maybe twice as many people in the audience as some of the others).
> I thought the quality overall was great, but I'm very partial to such
> topics of course.
Could you get the various presentation and put them up on the wiki
page? I would certainly like to read some of them.
> The general message I got from many was that more written material
> on Sage in use would be welcomed, especially books. I was touched by one guy
> who explained to me that his students were very poor (waitresses, for example)
> who cannot afford calculus texts and commercial math programs. The point
> he was implicitly making was that by offering software and documentation for
> free we are actually improving the quality of such peoples' lives in a real
> way.
+1
> - David Joyner
Cheers,
Michael
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