A few thoughts:
* The public sage notebook really needs to be available by default on
port 443. This brings up a lot of issues that have been hashed over many
times. Most webapps today would be delivered as a package that could run
in a standard Apache environment. So maybe something built on Django or
Turbogears. This would encourage others to make public notebooks
available that they can integrate into their hosting environments.
That's the hard solution. The easier solution is to get a separate IP
address. The harder solution above can help sage become a
widely-installed webapp hosted at various sites so downloads wouldn't
be the most important metric anymore.
* Wikipedia tie-in: for each mathematical topic in Wikipedia, create a
sage-based tutorial that illustrates the concepts. Perhaps this could be
a download-able notebook attached to the article that people can fire up
to walk through the tutorial. Or they can load it in the public sage
notebook. This might help establish sage the free choice for math and
could be an exercise that helps make sage more approachable by
non-mathematicians as well.
* get sage in apt. Again, lots of pain involved here and you all have
put in a lot of thought to the problems already.
ak
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:22:36PM -0700, William Stein wrote:
>
> Hi Sage-Devel,
>
> The SAGE downloads during the last week are as follows:
>
> Linux Binary
> 42
> OS X Binary
> 42
> Source
> 91
> VMware (= Windows)
> 57
>
>
> Total .................................. 232
>
> The number of new downloads of SAGE per week have been roughly
> constant during the last 2-3 months. The growth of SAGE is definitely
> not what I hoped for during my talk at SAGE Days 4. Does anybody
> have any good ideas about how to increase the number of people
> downloading SAGE? My hope is that this question will spark a relaxed
> but enthusiastic and positive open-ended brainstorming thread in which
> a lot of crazy ideas appear.
>
> I'm laying a lot of groundwork (e.g., writing books, articles, etc.)
> and I think other people are (esp David Joyner), but there is probably
> much more that could be done.
>
> Please share your thoughts!
>
> -- William
>
>
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