- Are there specific Sage products that should be highlighted in an Open Source for Education campaign? If so, which ones and why?
This seems like a tricky one - the key question I think is what is the audience of this marketing effort? Does it include K-12, or primarily undergraduate education, or what? Without knowing that it is impossible to decide what to highlight. One thing that I think is worth highlighting in a variety of contexts is the wiki pages of interacts. While these are still quite sparse compared to the Wolfram demonstrations project, there are a lot of good examples. Its also something that isn't easy to find (its possible that the new website makes this easier in a way I haven't noticed though). Maybe another thing to highlight is the growing number of Sage-based textbooks, although this is an area that will be a lot more robust in a year or so. I am helping David Joyner revise his sage-based differential equations book, which should be in pretty good shape by the end of the calendar year. Rob Beezer has his linear algebra book, which is not currently sage-based but might become more so in the future. Micheal Corral has indicated interest in changing his excellent calculus 3 book into a sage-based one (currently the computational examples are in java). You (William Stein) have your elementary number theory and modular forms books. -Marshall On Jul 19, 1:48 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Sun Microsystems wants Sage to be much more well known, so they are > throwing some of the considerable marketing resources at this problem. > > Ellen Fellenz from Sun asks several specific *marketing* questions > about Sage below. If anybody here has any thoughts about how they > would answer these questions, please go for it and respond to this > email answering them. I'll put together your answers with some > thoughts of my own, and send them on to Ellen. > > Thanks! > > William > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ellen Fellenz <...> > Date: 2009/7/17 > Subject: Re: CoMarketing: Sage & Sun > To: harald schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com>, William Stein > <wst...@gmail.com> > > Hi Herald and William, > > I completely understand the challenges in doing conference calls > internationally. It is really not necessary to be on a conference > call together to get this done. If you prefer, we can take a look at > the materials you mentioned below and put together a first draft of a > Sun/Sage solution brief for you to review. I have reviewed the > information you have referenced below as well as your corporate website. > > A few questions that would be helpful for us getting started on this > project: > - Can you provide a few key points as to why Sage products are > valuable to Educational Institutions implementing Open Source > technology? > - In high level terms, how do Sage's software products benefit from > running on Sun's Open Source infrastructure? > - Are there specific Sage products that should be highlighted in an > Open Source for Education campaign? If so, which ones and why? > - Do you have any customers in Education currently using Sun/Sage open > source technology that could be referenced in these materials? > > If it is easier, please just send some notes or bullet points for the > questions above and we can draft the materials and send back for your > review. > > Does that work for you? > > Thanks much, > > Ellen Fellenz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
