On Nov 15, 2007 5:43 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 9:18 pm, "Ted Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who are the main people who are responsible for SAGE marketing? I > > will have some free time in December and I would like to devote some > > of it to helping with SAGE's marketing effort. > > > > Ted > > Hi Ted, > > I don't think there is a formal structure in place to do any > marketing, but everybody who is giving talks certainly drives
[...] I just want to chime in that I totally agree with Michael's comments below about marketing, especially about improving the clarity, correctness, and consistency of the website, and finding ways to get Sage release announcements into the tech news. Additional things that could help would be: * writing introductory articles about sage * creating something about using sage for linear algebra teaching * creating a poster > awareness. cwitty just told me in IRC that the 2.8.12 release > announcement made it into this weeks "Linux Weekly News" development > section - see http://lwn.net/Articles/257830/ (subscription required). > I consider lwn very influential, so that is a good thing. If anybody > actively submitted or tried to drive them to add SAGE to their > development page I would like to hear about it. > > But back to your question: We should have somebody or a group of > people who are working on Marketing, at least the non-hyperbole driven > kind. One thing I can think are consistent a correctly spelled release > announcements, so if you could come up with some suggestions and/or a > couple standard sentences I would be very happy. In light of the lwn > announcement I would like to add some "boilerplate" to the bottom: > > "Sage is developed by volunteers and combines xx open source packages. > It is available for download from sagemath.org and its mirros in > source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems > please report them to the google groups sage-devel, sage-support, sage- > forum or sage-newbie...." > > This should be the standard on the bottom of each release > announcement, so that somebody who runs across Sage via something like > lwn would have all the basic information in one place instead of > having to crawl over sagemath.org to find them all. > > Fixing up sagemath.org, especially pages that are not the main > index.html, and updating information on the wiki is also something I > would consider to be part of marketing. We can certainly use people > who are willing to spend some time on that. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
