On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 12, 4:00 pm, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As far as I know, we are not planning on having a booth this year in >> SF.
Correct. >> Are there going to be any official Sage-related activities? No, I don't think there will be any. This is definitely by choice of the AMS though, since we put substantial effort and thought into an AMS minicourse proposal, but it was rejected. <rant> It is no surprise "the AMS" has not produced something like Sage for mathematics already. They are very good at organizing as a professional society, and also quite mature at publication of journals and books. And they have done a superb job supporting software related to publication (e.g., Latex). But I think the AMS's real contributions to mathematical software so far have been essentially nil. Maybe this will change someday, but I'm not holding my breath waiting. (And of course I realize that "they" is partly us, since many of us are AMS/MAA members.) The situation with the MAA is similar. </rant> > Depends on what you mean by official. I am giving two teaching- > related talks on interactive things I have done with Sage, and one > research talk on the results of what I talked at the last JMM about, > though I will not be emphasizing Sage per se in any of them. I > wouldn't be surprised if there were others. But I don't think > anyone's talked about this. I'm giving a little 15-minute talk in some number theory thing, probably. Maybe we should throw together a Sage Days-style coding sprint? Sage Days 18.5. We would just need a list of all Sage developers at the meeting, and to organize a meeting location and schedule for coding sprints. It would probably be best to do this unofficially, because the second you ask for a room big costs, complications, and bureaucracy appear. > I'm cc:ing this to sage-edu as well, in case someone there has any > comments and misses this post. > >> I am definitely attending, and I was thinking that it might be useful >> if Sage users and developers gave out Sage business cards during any >> appropriate opportunities. At last year's booth I think all or nearly >> all of the 200 business cards I brought were taken. Last year's >> design is still up at: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhampton/designs/bcard5.pdf >> >> If it sounds like a good idea, I am happy to print up a bunch of that >> or a new design and I can distribute them at the meeting. I think >> having sagenb.org on there was crucial for making it easy for people >> to give it a try. > > I think that would be very helpful. Having a table when there isn't a > critical mass of Sage folks there would be very difficult, but having > some cards to hand out after talks would be great. Having a table also cost about $800, which is another problem. An advantage though to getting a table is that you don't have to pay anything extra to register for the conference, so if 3 people are table managers the table can nearly pay for itself. It's probably too late at this point though, and running a table is a ton of work. The business cards are gorgeous, by the way. I want some to hand out. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
