OK, I'll print up 500 business cards and anyone who wants some can just let me know.
I think it will be interesting to see how the meeting goes without an informal presence. Last year we had a big footprint with the booth, AMS session and MAA session. But I think there has been tremendous progress in Sage name recognition with math faculty and students, so perhaps some of that isn't necessary. Overall though I think having a booth is worth the cost (as William said, with 3 registrations it isn't that bad a deal). I didn't want to volunteer to organize it this year, but in the future I will again be happy to help. -Marshall On Oct 12, 7:29 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
