On 4/13/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Definitely. I've even been paid regularly to work on SAGE during some parts of this year, for example. Also, if you are at a university that's interested in encouraging undergraduate research (and this is perhaps quite common!) employing a student to do something related to SAGE is often not that difficult. It's amazing how many people have emailed to tell me they are doing just that. > > 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. Excellent example. Emacs rocks. Another example is mathematical journals like Documenta Mathematica, Math Comp, Math Annallen, etc. Most of the interesting hard work done to make those journals possible is volunteer work. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
