Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-05 Thread Volker Braun
On Friday, March 4, 2011 2:05:19 PM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: There are some finite element software based on Python - see for example http://pfem.sourceforge.net/ That project looks pretty much dead. I think it would be better to have a Cython wrapper to some generic finite element /

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Hector
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:34 AM, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.netwrote: On 3 March 2011 19:26, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:16, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hello Dr. David Kirkby, It may be a trivial question but couldn't get what is IIRC. Is it IRC? Googleing didn't return much relevant results. It means If I recall correctly, see the golden source of slang definitions: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IIRC :) Cheers, Martin

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Hector
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Martin Albrecht martinralbre...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Dr. David Kirkby, It may be a trivial question but couldn't get what is IIRC. Is it IRC? Googleing didn't return much relevant results. It means If I recall correctly, see the golden source of

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Friday 04 March 2011, David Kirkby wrote: On 3 March 2011 19:26, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:16, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any feedback why? No, one vague

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread David Kirkby
On 4 March 2011 09:28, Martin Albrecht martinralbre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 04 March 2011, David Kirkby wrote: Perhaps a very different approach is needed. One thing I feel Sage lacks is engineering applications. How about basing the applications upon building engineering

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Harald Schilly
Thank's for your suggestions, but about that: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 15:05, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I don't know of any way to add a finite element front end onto Sage, I think we should not try to copy femhub. E.g. it's not a coincidence that their packages end in *.spkg

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread David Kirkby
On 4 March 2011 14:24, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank's for your suggestions, but about that: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 15:05, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I don't know of any way to add a finite element front end onto Sage, I think we should not try to copy

[sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Felix Lawrence
On Mar 5, 1:05 am, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: * I don't know of any way to add a finite element front end onto Sage, but if there was, that would open up a huge range of possibilies. There are some finite element software based on Python - see for

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: * Add GPIB support for Linux only - probably the only platform where this is doable with totally free software. FreeBSD would be possible if the port was complete. Solaris and OS X would probably need to use a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 4/11 02:40 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM, David Kirkbydavid.kir...@onetel.net wrote: * Add GPIB support for Linux only - probably the only platform where this is doable with totally free software. FreeBSD would be possible if the port was complete. Solaris and OS

[sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Harald Schilly
I'm in charge this year. I'll write something up and everybody how wants to be a possible mentor please contact me (I'll also contact some usual suspects). greetings Harald -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Hector
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.comwrote: I'm in charge this year. I'll write something up and everybody how wants to be a possible mentor please contact me (I'll also contact some usual suspects). greetings Harald -- To post to this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 3/11 06:19 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: I'm in charge this year. I'll write something up and everybody how wants to be a possible mentor please contact me (I'll also contact some usual suspects). greetings Harald IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any feedback

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:16, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any feedback why? No, one vague guess is that there is a limit for each topic and we are - obviously - in a small math software topic. Let's see, trying

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread David Kirkby
On 3 March 2011 19:26, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:16, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any feedback why? No, one vague guess is that there is a limit for each topic and