Hi there, Sage is among the finalists of this year's Les Trophees du Libre competition in Paris, France.
http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/+Finalists-projects?lang=en I am going to represent Sage at the finals (each project has to give a 30 minute presentation) and thus prepared some slides available at: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/malb/20071129%20-%20SAGE%20-%20Paris/ cetril.pdf is the presentation, SAGE_Demo.sws the demo worksheet, and SAGE_Demo.pdf the PDF version of that demo. The target audience is a group of people who want to promote open-source but probably are not into mathematics at all. So presenting that we have a very sophisticated model for p-adic arithmetic and comparing Sage with Magma might not do the trick. (but Sage is in the 'scientific software' section, so it is okay to talk a little about mathematics ;-)) The rules for the competition also indicate what the judges are going to be looking for: """ All the software will be tested and evaluated according to the criteria set out below: - Innovation (coefficient of 3) - Functionality (coefficient of 3) - Quality/stability (coefficient of 3) - Durability (coefficient of 3) - Utility (coefficient of 4) - Documentation (coefficient of 3) - Ease of installation (coefficient of 1) - General renown (coefficient of -15) """ I believe I've addressed these points implicitly (and I prefer to address them implicitly) but I'd appreciate feedback on the talk and demo. Also, what else could go into a demo for non-mathematicians? Is your name missing in the list of contributes (I generated that from the hg logs)? Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
