I like to compare the Sage's Google Groups activity to Mathematica's. Recently there was a big jump in MMA's, but Sage was kicking butt for a while there.
On Mar 9, 11:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree; I'm not sure 10^6 users is a useful goal to have, although I > > am not against it. > > Again, the goal is not 10^6 users, it is "to be a viable alternative to > Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and Magma". Any free program that > genuinely attains that goal would *have* to have 10^6 users within > some reasonable amount of time. Thus I consider the 10^6 business > not a goal in itself, but a clear way to measure whether we have achieved > success or not. > > > One of my hopes/goals for Sage is to make every mathematics researcher > > and educator aware of its existence, and for it to be useful to a > > large fraction of those folks. Accomplishing that would result in > > roughly 10,000 "users", but many of those users would be deploying it > > in classes with many students each semester. If you count the > > students as users, that would give about 10^5 users. > > Students would definitely count. > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
