I think it would be very useful in following up to the PREP workshop as well. I think I can commit to staffing it for a significant period of time, though I do not have a funding source. If 50 people each committed $10 to the Sage foundation for this purpose, that would get us halfway there, though.
- kcrisman On Jan 27, 6:33 am, Kiran Kedlaya <ksk...@gmail.com> wrote: > This would definitely be called for if the AMS approves William's > Short Course application. I can help with funding if needed. > > Kiran > > On Jan 26, 11:30 pm, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Since this sort of decision should be made pretty early in the year I > > wanted to open a discussion on it. > > > Sage has had two exhibition booths at the national (US) joint math > > meetings, in 2008 and 2009. This year we did not have a booth. > > > I think those booths were extremely helpful in making people more > > aware of Sage. My impression is that now somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 > > of academic mathematicians have heard of Sage, but most do not have a > > clear idea of exactly what it is and what it can do. If we had a > > booth at the 2011 meetings, I think it would be important to have a > > good graphical display - i.e. at least one good-sized monitor, ideally > > 2. William Stein obtained a great monitor for 2008, but its unclear > > how to repeat that in New Orleans. > > > Overall I think it would be worthwhile to have another booth if enough > > people can pitch in. It does take a lot of effort. While it costs > > money, at least 2 people get exhibitor registrations (maybe 3?). For > > the money (less than $1000 total I think) its probably the most > > effective way to get the attention of many mathematicians. > > > I would be willing to help organize and run a booth in 2011 if some > > other people could commit to that as well. I do not have a source of > > funding for it at the moment but if we start now it shouldn't be too > > hard to find. > > > Any thoughts? > > > -Marshall Hampton -- 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
