Thank you all for your great comments. I'm working on a new draft
now. You all have provided very useful suggestions.
On 5/29/07, Mark van Hoeij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David, William,
>
> Thanks for getting started with this whitepaper project. I think that
> what Bob Grafton wants to do w
On May 29, 2007, at 11:02 AM, William Stein wrote:
> In fact, the Mathematica documentation has something to say about this
> (see
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/
> WhyYouDoNotUsuallyNeedToKnowAboutInternals.html):
>
> "Particularly in more advanced applications of Mathem
OK, I can't help but respond to this
On 5/28/07, Richard Fateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The FOI act request is not likely to work.
> Who is going to provide the information? The NSF does not audit all grants
> down to the level where it could say if money in the budget was actually
> s
Hi there,
just two quick remarks:
> open-source (As defined by http://www.opensource.org/.)
On page two you quote OSI's OS definition and assume that everybody is
familiar with the term open-source as they define it. This is definitely not
the case as the OSI definition requires more than jus
> Some variant of this is definitely worth thinking about much more, since
> it is one of the standard models for open source software (which is
> now tried and tested, and does work if one is providing a genuinely
> useful service). For example, we could officially sell support
> for SAGE at t
> On 5/28/07, Emil Volcheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe we need to devise a concept of "support license" for OSCAS by
> > which a researcher can voluntarily allocate part of their grant to
> > contribute to the development effort for OSCAS. I think of "support
> > license" as a term of a
A minor correction.
On page 2, line -4 the word read is repeated.
On May 28, 8:39 pm, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Emil, SAGE developers:
>
> Following a suggestion of Emil Volcheck of ACM/SIGSAM and Bob Grafton
> of NSF, and William and I have drafted a "white paper" on NFS f
On 5/28/07, Emil Volcheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, David.
>
> I applaud your quick work. I've forwarded your message to the SIGSAM
> Officers list as well as to our white paper committee.
>
> I'll get back to you with comments on your draft within two weeks.
>
> Thank you for includin
On May 29, 3:39 am, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Emil, SAGE developers:
>
> Following a suggestion of Emil Volcheck of ACM/SIGSAM and Bob Grafton
> of NSF, and William and I have drafted a "white paper" on NFS funding
> of mathematical software. It is
> athttp://sage.math.was
