Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: comments on highlights for NSF

2012-12-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Tom!

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:19:09PM -0800, tom d wrote:
>The write-up looks good!  I have a bunch of stuff planned for the coming
>term incorporating Sage in Kenya and South Africa.  Perhaps the line about
>Africa could be expanded to something like: 'The open nature of the Sage
>and Sage-Combinat projects encourages participation in developing
>countries like Kenya and Burkina Faso, increasing the breadth of the world
>mathematical community.'

The last statement feels a bit bold; maybe «contributing to the
increase of the breath of ...».

>(I'm planning on doing a bunch of things around mathematical problem
>solving with Sage this coming term: we're giving a three week intensive
>course at AIMS in South Africa, and I'll be running a weekly
>seminar/problem solving session with undergrads in Kenya.  We're also
>going to be strategically deploying some Raspberry Pi computers with
>secondary students, hopefully with Sage included if I can get it to
>compile!  I'll also be running some sessions at an algebraic geometry
>conference in Mombasa in June.  So there's stuff happening with Sage (and
>sage-combinat!) on the secondary, undergrad and post grad levels here in
>Kenya.)

Impressive. Bravo for all those initiatives!

Cheers,
Nicolas
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[sage-combinat-devel] Re: conflicts in 5.5.rc0

2012-12-21 Thread Andrew Mathas
Sorry, that's be me. Fixed now.

Andrew

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