On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Marshall Hampton<hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - 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.
The audience is probably mainly "potential Sun Microsystems customers. As such, the target audience is likely to be primarily undergraduate education. > 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 Thanks for your comments and feedback!! > > 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 > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
