[Axiom-developer] Summer of code

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Rubey
I just came across http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727 So, who is going to prepare the application for google SOC? If nobody volonteers, I'll do it. I'd propose a HyperDoc replacement using the ALLPROSE format. Martin ___

[Axiom-developer] Summer of Code application

2006-04-23 Thread root
I would like to submit Axiom as a Summer of Code project for 2006. We successfully participated last year as a subproject of the LispNYC group. This year, in preparation for participation in the Summer of Code program, we have collected and published a series of possible projects at http://wik

RE: [Axiom-developer] Summer of Code is on again!

2006-04-14 Thread Bill Page
On April 14, 2006 4:09 PM C Y wrote: > ... > Summer of Code is on again! > > http://code.google.com/soc/ > Great! I think this was a great success last year. I hope this year Axiom can directly participate in SoC instead of working through a proxy organization. (Although I think it was very gene

[Axiom-developer] Summer of Code is on again!

2006-04-14 Thread C Y
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[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2006-02-03 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode/diff -- ++added: There is already software that is very close: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/software/aldor/aldorunit";>AldorUnit. As an example, it is used for testing with http://www.hemmecke.de/aldor";>ALLPROSE. -- forwarded from htt

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2006-02-02 Thread Tim Daly
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode/diff -- --removed: - work on the tutorial volume of the book - - Propose and get agreement on a textbook (linear algebra for dummies?) - or an online course (linear algebra at ocw.mit.edu?) and develop a - tutorial based on the source mater

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] add a project

2006-01-20 Thread daly
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode/diff -- ++added: Mathematica has a free 'reader' program which is designed to show their notebooks. The format for the reader is standard ascii. We could develop an Axiom output format that would allow us to create notebooks from Axiom t

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-12-18 Thread Tim Daly
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode/diff -- ++added: Axiom can output its equations in many formats such as FORTRAN or TeX. We need to develop a jsMath output format for browsers. (see http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/examples/Henrici.html) We need to develop a Mat

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] links updated after rename

2005-11-24 Thread billpage
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: - 2 Extensions to MathAction - the Axiom Wiki 2 Extensions to AboutMathAction - the Axiom Wiki ??changed: - of Axiom graphics on MathAction of Axiom graphics on AboutMathAction ??changed: - In addition to

[Axiom-developer] summer of code 2006

2005-10-25 Thread root
*, We participated in the Summer of Code last year as a sub-project of LispNYC. Because of the time constraints last year there was a bit of confusion (we got a direct accept notice then got dropped). Kai Kaminski did an excellent job for us and we are quite pleased with the result. We have colle

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-27 Thread TIm Daly
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ++added: Television/DVD presentation We need to design and script an effective introduction to Axiom for new users. The most effective way to do this (at least from the new user's point of view) would be a DVD/TV

[Axiom-developer] summer of code expansion

2005-06-17 Thread daly
Chris, I understand that the summer of code has been expanded to 400 participants. Is there any openings for new sponsoring organizations? If so, can I resubmit Axiom's entry? We're already working with a potential summer of code student thru LispNYC. Tim Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Axiom-developer] Summer Of Code

2005-06-17 Thread Heow Eide-Goodman
I'm (Heow from LispNYC) coordinating with Google. Still waiting for my login to their system so I'm hearing everything second-hand ...and you third-hand. :-) Anyway, LispNYC is still working on procedures for processing of the applications (which it looks like we're doing) with the words "inclus

Re: [Axiom-developer] Summer Of Code

2005-06-17 Thread Bob McElrath
Google just expanded the "Summer of code" to include 400 participants (double). http://code.google.com Who was coordinating with google? Can we request to be a sponsoring organization again? Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Heow (especially!), dear Tim, Bill, > > since is not going

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-12 Thread daly
Kai, I've been on the road all week without internet access so I've been unable to keep in contact. The implementation should be a literate program. In some sense it is more important that you document what you do than that you accomplish the goals. A key person who helped develop Axiom died th

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-03 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: - work on the windows version of the browser and graphics [AxiomTK] work on the windows version of the browser and graphics -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-03 Thread Bob McElrath
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- "Linux Fund":http://www.linuxfund.org/ may be another source of funds for work on axiom. -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

[Axiom-developer] Summer Of Code

2005-06-03 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Heow (especially!), dear Tim, Bill, since is not going to be supported (would have been to good to be true), I would like to embrace your offer, Heow! Looking through the WishList and SummerOfCode page, I find the following two projects which are probably Lisp related: II. 1. work on the wi

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
re: mistakes. no problem. the confusion passes. Despite the fact that Axiom didn't make the list I'm happy to see that Google is willing to help the open source community with funding. It's a key issue and this is a good model. I was previously with City College of New York and will shortly be at

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
*, The latest version is up in the arch archive, soon to be pushed to the sourceforge and savannah sites once "round-trip" testing completes. Release was delayed due to moving and google summer effort. Tim == 20050502 tpd --patch-38 20

RE: [Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Tim, On June 2, 2005 2:32 PM you wrote: > I just heard back from Chris DiBona, the person running > the google Summer of Code project. Axiom was withdrawn > and my admin access was cancelled. :(( Were any specific reasons given for this decision? Of course Google only has so much money :) and t

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
*, I just heard back from Chris DiBona, the person running the google Summer of Code project. Axiom was withdrawn and my admin access was cancelled. Heow Eide-Goodman is the leader of the Lisp NYC group where I gave my talk last month. He's one of the accepted groups and he is interested in coo

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Other Axiom-related projects

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ++added: Bill Page, Axiom developer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada ++added: ??changed: - VI AXIOM-RELATED PROJECTS VI AXIOM-RELATED PROJECTS -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTE

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Other Axiom-related projects

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- Although I am sure that we have enough projects listed above to keep an army of students busy for several years, I think creating this list is a very useful exercise in and of itself. Maybe another category would be a goo

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Other Axiom-related projects

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -VI AXIOM-RELATED PROJECTS VI. AXIOM-RELATED PROJECTS ??changed: - to several other packages including Reduce and Graphvz. to several other packages including "Reduce":ReduceWiki and GraphViz

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Other Axiom-related projects

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: - build a stronger community amoung mathematical software build a stronger community among mathematical software -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] WishList

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- Some additional possible projects and some additional information about the above projects is available on the Axiom WishList page. -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread William Sit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Axiom has been accepted as a Summer of Code project. Great, although I noted that you later said we are in limbo. > This represents a great opportunity for us as we can get paid > labor to work on particular topics. And it represents an interesting > experiment in o

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] display organization: please insert your info as mentor

2005-06-02 Thread wyscc
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -DOCUMENTATION - -Axiom is documented with 4 books which are under development, Summer of Code: Axiom Projects Information on Google's Summer of Code project is available at http://code.google.com/summerofcod

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
Martin, At 12:14 AM this morning we were approved as a sponsoring project. I received a letter from Chris DiBona and was given access to the private summer-administrators newsgroup where I posted. At 2:37 Chris posted a note in the summer-discuss newsgroup saying we were not accepted but I've got

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
Chris, I'm confused. I received an letter from you last night accepting Axiom as a mentoring organization with an invitation to join the private summer-administrators newgroup. I joined and replied to the (Who'se is on this list?) entry. You can see my entry at 12:14am. You placed an entry in t

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
Heow, Kai, Heow, congrats on being accepted. There seems to be a bit of confusion about whether Axiom is or is not a sponsoring organization. I've received an letter from Chris DiBona saying we are yet he posted an entry saying we are not. On our list (http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathac

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
Heow, Dan, There seems to be a bit of confusion about whether Axiom is or is not a sponsoring organization. I've received an letter from Chris DiBona saying we are yet he posted an entry saying we are not. Dan contacted me with an interest in doing a summer of code project. Since the NYC group is

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
Martin, Please try to merge your WishList items with the Summer of Code page. The people we can hire are required to be students so it is not clear that they can handle particularly difficult problems (unless they happen to be exceptionally talented) within the span of a summer. I've tried to ma

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread daly
All, Axiom has been accepted as a Summer of Code project. This represents a great opportunity for us as we can get paid labor to work on particular topics. And it represents an interesting experiment in open source support. I need some people to volunteer to review the students resumes. I'm in

[Axiom-developer] Summer of Code / WishList

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Rubey
I think that the SummerOfCode Page is a great start. However, many items coincide with the items on the WishList, but have additional pointers there. I "maintained" the WishList page for exactly this purpose and tried to keep it "tidy". I suggest that we try to merge the two pages. (I won't have t

Re: [Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Rubey
Bob McElrath writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > We can certainly provide a site of ideas (I've already listed about > > 10 on the google site) but we need someone to volunteer as a backup. > > I'd like to volunteer to mentor someone to write a field theory module

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-01 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -From BillPage Wed Jun 1 13:47:08 -0500 2005 -From: Bill Page -Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:47:08 -0500 -Subject: Axiom Foundation -Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - -Google's *Summer of Code* requires a -"Mentori

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] some smaller-scale math projects

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- Here are a few more ideas for "math-oriented" summer coding projects: * expand Axiom's set of linear algebra algorithm's to include symbolic LU decomposition and other missing common operations * extend the functiona

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-01 Thread anonyme
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: - The output should a program that can be run to create the The output should be a program that can be run to create the -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-01 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- --removed: - ++added: * Magnus integration Magnus is an open source implementation of infinite group theory algorithms. These need to be extracted, documented, and implemented in Axiom The first result woul

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-01 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- --removed: -We could use students to: ++added: Axiom is documented with 4 books which are under development, a tutorial, a programmer's guide, a reference volume, and a developer's guide. ??changed: - visit each algeb

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
Chris, We have a web page we've set up on a wiki at http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode We're going to be adding projects to that web page with additional explanations. A second person (Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), one of our developers, is looking for students to

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code]

2005-06-01 Thread anonymous
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -1 work on the reference volume of the book DOCUMENTATION * work on the reference volume of the book ??changed: -2 work on the tutorial volume of the book * work on the tutorial volume of the book ??changed:

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
Bob, I added 3 mathematical tasks to the wiki page as well as categorized them. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
Bob, I have no objections to mathematical projects. I've just been concentrating on something that could be done by someone with no Axiom experience in a couple months time. Bill has set up a page http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode where we can propose projects. t ___

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Axiom Foundation

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- Google's *Summer of Code* requires a "Mentoring Organization":http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html I thing the [Axiom Foundation]" would be idea for this purpose. -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mat

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Axiom Foundation

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -I thing the [Axiom Foundation]" would be idea for this purpose. - I think the [Axiom Foundation]" would be idea for this purpose. Let's try to get the [Axiom Foundation] added to the list at http://code.google

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Axiom Foundation

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -I think the [Axiom Foundation]" would be idea for this purpose. I think the [Axiom Foundation] would be idea for this purpose. -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] Axiom Foundation

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- ??changed: -I think the [Axiom Foundation] would be idea for this purpose. I think the [Axiom Foundation] would be ideal for this purpose. -- forwarded from http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread Bob McElrath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We can certainly provide a site of ideas (I've already listed about > 10 on the google site) but we need someone to volunteer as a backup. I'd like to volunteer to mentor someone to write a field theory module (a la FeynCalc) for Axiom. Most of the

[Axiom-developer] [Summer of Code] (new)

2005-06-01 Thread billpage
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/SummerOfCode/diff -- We could use students to: 1 work on the reference volume of the book visit each algebra file and make a complete listing of all of the function signatures with boiler-plate documentation (e.g. the types in the argu

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
* We can certainly provide a site of ideas (I've already listed about 10 on the google site) but we need someone to volunteer as a backup. t > Individuals are not eligible to be mentors, you must provide a backup > and a list of ideas on a site. Let us know if you can do that, then > we'll det

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
* We can certainly provide a site of ideas (I've already listed about 10 on the google site) but we need someone to volunteer as a backup. t > Individuals are not eligible to be mentors, you must provide a backup > and a list of ideas on a site. Let us know if you can do that, then > we'll det

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
Chris, I'm polling the membership for a backup person. I've posted a list of ideas on the summer newsgroup but I'll put together a web page on the Axiom site and let you know where it appears. Tim > Individuals are not eligible to be mentors, you must provide a backup > and a list of ideas on a

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
Bill, Google is sponsoring a "summer of code" where they will pay students to work on open source projects for the summer. The students get $4500 and the organization gets $500. This could be a useful source of visibility, people, and revenue. In order to qualify as a sponsoring organization (th

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
I'm Tim Daly, the lead developer on the Axiom project (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom http://sourceforge.net/projects/axiom http://page.axiom-developer.org) I saw the announcement about the summer of code. I posted some possible tasks on the summer-discuss list but that was a bit prem

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread daly
seems reasonable to me. i already have 3 students working with me on the doyencd project. the key problem is finding students who are self-learners and self-motivated. i managed to do that using the interview process. i'm not sure how to conduct an interview process in this case. i'll send a note

[Axiom-developer] summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread Martin Rubey
I think we should participate as mentoring organization in "summer of code": http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html Deadline is June 14, but very likely we would have to be ready this weekend. Martin ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@non