There are now wiki pages for these events; the following people are planning on attending (though some won't be there full time):
*Review Days* (March 17-22): http://wiki.sagemath.org/review2 - Jen Balakrishnan (Harvard University) - Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound) - Jon Bober (University of Washington) - Tom Boothby (Simon Frasier University) - Robert Bradshaw (Google) - Keshav Kini (Nanyang Technological University) - David Roe (University of Calgary) - William Stein (University of Washington) *Doc Days* (April 17-22): http://wiki.sagemath.org/doc6 - Jon Bober (University of Washington) - Jen Balakrishnan (Harvard University) - Keshav Kini (Nanyang Technological University) - David Roe (University of Calgary) - William Stein (University of Washington) *Bug Days* (May 24-29): http://wiki.sagemath.org/bug19 - Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound) - Jon Bober (University of Washington) - Volker Braun (Dublin Institute for Advanced Study) - Karl-Dieter Crisman (Gordon College) - Dan Drake (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) - Keshav Kini (Nanyang Technological University) - Andrey Novoseltsev (University of Alberta) - Martin Raum (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics) - David Roe (University of Calgary) - Julian Ruth (Leibniz University) - William Stein (University of Washington) If you're local and plan to attend, please add your name to the wiki pages. If you're not local and would like to attend, please e-mail me to inquire about funding to participate. David On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 15:12, David Roe <r...@math.harvard.edu> wrote: > We're still looking for some more people. We'll be moving Bug Days a week > later to accommodate multiple requests, so it will now be May 24-29. As > William noted in a followup e-mail, these events will all be held at the > University of Washington in Seattle. > > We're especially looking for people for Review Days and Doc Days. If > you're excited about incorporating the patchbot into Sage and making it > easier for people to contribute code to Sage you should come to Review > Days! And if you want to make Sage easier to get into and can help us > write documentation we'd love to have you at Doc Days. > David > > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 13:23, David Roe <roed...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> William and I are planning three workshops in the next four months and we >> have funding available to support attendees. If you're seriously >> interested in attending one (or more) of these please e-mail me >> immediately. A priori we have no restrictions on where you're flying from >> and we don't need a commitment quite yet; we do need to gauge interest >> however in order to start planning. Funded participants will have housing >> and travel covered. >> >> Here's a description of the workshops. >> >> *Review Days* >> >> The purpose of this workshop will be twofold. >> * Review some of the 275 tickets currently needing review. >> * Improve Sage's review and testing infrastructure. This may include >> setting up a system that allows line by line comments (like Google's >> internal Perforce system, or the open source versions Rietveld or Review >> Board), requiring authors of tickets to suggest a reviewer and setting up >> systems to provide defaults, fixing patchbot and finishing the new >> doctesting code (#12415) >> >> The tentative dates for Review Days are March 17-22. >> >> *Doc Days* >> >> The goals for this workshop will be: >> * Improve Sage's doctest coverage >> * Restructure Sage's documentation and help to be more useful and >> friendly to new users >> * Write more documentation >> >> The tentative dates for Doc Days are April 17-22. >> >> *Bug Days* >> >> This will be a standard bug days where our goal is to squash as many bugs >> as we can. >> >> The tentative dates for Bug Days are May 17-22 (partly for symmetry: the >> dates for this workshop are somewhat more flexible). >> >> David >> > > -- 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
