I'm on a Mac, but when I click the link I just see a bunch of a files. Could you post a tar file?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My presentation was done in Keynote, and it would be pretty pointless > to look at a pdf. I did put the Keynote folder up at: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhampton/ams2009mhampton.key/ > > (On OS.X this folder will appear as a file.) If you don't have > Keynote, you can still individually look at the images and movies. > The movies (.mov and .mp4 files) are probably the most interesting > part. I am hoping to find the time to write some animation how-tos > soon. > > Marshall > > On Jan 8, 9:52 pm, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
