"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An anoymous person wrote: >> > SAGE is such a paradox. How are these things going to get done by a >> > volunteer community? Especially the boring things. I can't figure it >> > out. But then I can't figure out how any project like this gets off >> > the ground at all. > > It's not a paradox. The point is that SAGE is > very much *not* only a volunteer committee. I hire four undergrads > at 19/week to work on SAGE -- they are not volunteers at all -- SAGE > is their job, and have hired a grad student full > time most of the year too (different students each quarter).
And this is *very* important for people like me, who do volunteer a little of their time. Knowing that for some people, SAGE is their job, is mentally freeing for those of us for whom SAGE is not their job. > Anyway, you could make the same "its a paradox remark" about > many many things, e.g., Linux, people who work at food kitchens, > many NGO's, etc. Amen. Some projects even have excellent documentation -- witness GNU Emacs. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
