On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:24 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
UW sends out personal thank you letters that certify that you've made a tax-deductible contribution to every single contribution to the Sage Foundation. It's *really* easy to donate with a credit card: https://secure.gifts.washington.edu/as_mathematics/gift.asp?page=make&Code=MATSAG I have been very, very conservative with spending funds from the Sage Foundation account for quite a while, so I can definitely contribute toward the AMS booth, which I think we should do. The main income to the Foundation lately has just been from sales of the Sage tutorial (which is not much since the tutorial is sold just over cost). -- William > > 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 > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
