[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-12-28 Thread Rob Beezer
I've ordered a pile of 1-inch square Sage stickers to affix to name badges during the meeting as a way folks can support Sage (and start the inevitable conversations). They just shipped today from Maverick Label (which is about 50 miles north of me). If you would like a starter-pack of 10 sticker

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-11-29 Thread mhampton
After thinking about it some, I'm leaning against my original idea of an "ask me about sage" shirt. I wouldn't ordinarily want to wear it. But I am thinking of printing another one of the shirts I made for the raffle last year. All you need to do to get one from cafepress.com is to upload http:/

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 at 09:32AM -0800, Simon King wrote: > On Nov 29, 4:37 pm, mhampton wrote: > > OK, I've ordered 500 business cards.  I was thinking that perhaps it > > would be fun to make a t-shirt that said "Ask me about Sage!".  If > > anyone else is interested I could order a few, although

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-11-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Simon King wrote: > On Nov 29, 4:37 pm, mhampton wrote: >> OK, I've ordered 500 business cards. I was thinking that perhaps it >> would be fun to make a t-shirt that said "Ask me about Sage!". If >> anyone else is interested I could order a few, although I don't want >> to front a lot of money f

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-11-29 Thread Simon King
On Nov 29, 4:37 pm, mhampton wrote: > OK, I've ordered 500 business cards.  I was thinking that perhaps it > would be fun to make a t-shirt that said "Ask me about Sage!".  If > anyone else is interested I could order a few, although I don't want > to front a lot of money for it. What about total

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-11-29 Thread mhampton
OK, I've ordered 500 business cards. I was thinking that perhaps it would be fun to make a t-shirt that said "Ask me about Sage!". If anyone else is interested I could order a few, although I don't want to front a lot of money for it. -Marshall On Oct 14, 7:32 pm, mhampton wrote: > I started a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Alex McFerron wrote: > I'm a lurker on this list. I keep wanting to join up and start coding for > Sage. I'm a computer science grad student. Anyway, i'll be at the Joint > meetings. Would love to meet people and learn more about Sage. > > could also pass out card

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-15 Thread Alex McFerron
I'm a lurker on this list. I keep wanting to join up and start coding for Sage. I'm a computer science grad student. Anyway, i'll be at the Joint meetings. Would love to meet people and learn more about Sage. could also pass out cards or help out in some way if needed cheers, alex On Thu, Oct

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Rado
I will definitely stop by. Looking forward to meeting all the Sage people. On Oct 14, 8:32 pm, mhampton wrote: > I started a wiki page for this: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2010 > > and I took the liberty of adding Karl, Rob Beezer, and William as > participants.  Hopefully that's OK.  I en

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread mhampton
I started a wiki page for this: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2010 and I took the liberty of adding Karl, Rob Beezer, and William as participants. Hopefully that's OK. I encourage anyone else who is attending to add your name to the list, since it will give me a better idea of how many business

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
> > I can almost see several people sitting out in the lobby on a couch, > with the huge Sage banner draped over your laps and hanging down in > front of the couch, coding and having a great time. But it won't be a party without you! We really need to get a head count... - kcrisman --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread mhampton
That would be great if you could do the stickers, and I will do the business cards. Thanks! Marshall On Oct 14, 2:37 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute > the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly > more idiot-p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute > the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly > more idiot-proof ordering interface (at a cost of fewer colors, I > think). 500 might be overkill, but the marginal cost of the last 10

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Rob Beezer
I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly more idiot-proof ordering interface (at a cost of fewer colors, I think). 500 might be overkill, but the marginal cost of the last 100 stickers is 2.5 cents/st

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Miller
I've been thinking about going to the joint meetings, and (although it looks irrelevant) I still have the Sage banner in my office at UW. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> Marshall, >> >> Limited Googling got me:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Marshall, > > Limited Googling got me:  http://www.sheet-labels.com/printing/ > > $35 for 500 stickers at 1" x 0.625" which was the smallest I could > find.  Lots of options - rounded corners, different sizes, etc. > > Rob I can certainly c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Marshall, > > Limited Googling got me:  http://www.sheet-labels.com/printing/ > > $35 for 500 stickers at 1" x 0.625" which was the smallest I could > find.  Lots of options - rounded corners, different sizes, etc. > > Rob I asked my brothe

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Rob Beezer
Marshall, Limited Googling got me: http://www.sheet-labels.com/printing/ $35 for 500 stickers at 1" x 0.625" which was the smallest I could find. Lots of options - rounded corners, different sizes, etc. Rob On Oct 13, 7:07 pm, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I like the sticker idea too.  I'm not

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
I like the sticker idea too. I'm not sure how to go about making them - anyone know a good place to order custom tiny stickers? It would be cool to use the sage logo if it could be printed small & crisply. -Marshall On Oct 13, 7:21 pm, Dan Drake wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 at 10:38PM -0700,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 at 10:38PM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: > I wonder if little stickers with a Sage logo might be an additional > approach. Project NExT has their colored dots, department chairs are > another colored sticker, Board of Governors have their pins, the > Budapest study abroad program ha

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 13, 1:39 am, Rob Beezer wrote: >>> On Oct 12, 5:29 pm, William Stein wrote: >>> Maybe we should throw together a Sage Days-style coding sprint?   Sage Days 18.5.  We would just need a list of all S

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: > > > On Oct 13, 1:39 am, Rob Beezer wrote: >> On Oct 12, 5:29 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >>> Maybe we should throw together a Sage Days-style coding sprint? Sage >>> Days 18.5. We would just need a list of all Sage developers at the > > Yeah, this sounds good. It might a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 13, 1:39 am, Rob Beezer wrote: > On Oct 12, 5:29 pm, William Stein wrote: > > > Maybe we should throw together a Sage Days-style coding sprint?   Sage > > Days 18.5.  We would just need a list of all Sage developers at the Yeah, this sounds good. It might also be good to use a Wiki pa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-13 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 13, 1:38 am, Rob Beezer wrote: > Marshall, > > Thanks for printing up business cards for the meeting.  Count me in. > One year I did this for my textbook - it was a good way to start a > conversation.  Distributed about 50 all told.  If those who were > interested in passing out business

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread Rob Beezer
On Oct 12, 5:29 pm, William Stein wrote: > Maybe we should throw together a Sage Days-style coding sprint?   Sage > Days 18.5.  We would just need a list of all Sage developers at the > meeting, and to organize a meeting location and schedule for coding > sprints.   It would probably be best to d

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread Rob Beezer
Marshall, Thanks for printing up business cards for the meeting. Count me in. One year I did this for my textbook - it was a good way to start a conversation. Distributed about 50 all told. If those who were interested in passing out business cards resolved to mention Sage to people they meet

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread Marshall Hampton
OK, I'll print up 500 business cards and anyone who wants some can just let me know. I think it will be interesting to see how the meeting goes without an informal presence. Last year we had a big footprint with the booth, AMS session and MAA session. But I think there has been tremendous progr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > On Oct 12, 4:00 pm, mhampton wrote: >> As far as I know, we are not planning on having a booth this year in >> SF. Correct. >> Are there going to be any official Sage-related activities? No, I don't think there will be any. This is defini

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 12, 4:00 pm, mhampton wrote: > As far as I know, we are not planning on having a booth this year in > SF.  Are there going to be any official Sage-related activities? Depends on what you mean by official. I am giving two teaching- related talks on interactive things I have done with Sage