Being optimistic, I would hope things would pick up in the fall compared to the summer (in fact, I think it's lucky to not have a drop--assuming we're starting to aim for the non-research crowd too). I don't have any specific ideas (yet), but I think the "back to school" timeline is important to keep in mind.
- Robert On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:22 PM, 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
