I think the main question is who is willing to take the lead on writing and submitting applications (before April 2). I don't have enough time in the next three weeks to do any writing, but I am willing to help brainstorm what form the proposal(s) should take and help edit proposals if someone else volunteers to write them. David
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 6:18 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, we could prepare several proposals for separate projects. > One can see in the lists of past funded projects that some organizations > have received funding for two simultaneous projects. > > On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8:38:13 AM UTC-7 John Cremona wrote: > >> Should there not be separate projects for documenting (1) building and >> installing Sage; (2) using Sage (perhaps with some subject-specific >> tutorials, some of which exist but might be worth updating) and (3) >> documenting individual Sage functions and methods. >> >> These require different expertise, for example I recently found a badly >> misleading docstring in the elliptic curves section, but only someone with >> the right expertise would be able to rewrite it properly (yes, I will >> create an issue for this soon!) >> >> John >> >> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 15:03, David Roe <roed...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think this would be good for Sage. I think there are several >>> decisions to be made: >>> * What are our most pressing documentation needs? Personally, I think >>> we have a gap between the reference manual (which is extensive but has no >>> flow) and the thematic tutorials (which are written to tell a story but are >>> just introductions). I also poked around online for criticisms of Sage's >>> documentation and found complaints about not having separate pages for >>> each function <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513654> (compared >>> to Mathematica's), some suggestions here >>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/> >>> about focusing on aspects of Sage commonly used by beginners (like >>> plotting). >>> * Who will be involved in applying and supervising the project? This >>> could be a group or a single person. I can help a bit, but I can't take >>> the lead. >>> David >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 5:13 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> SageMath could benefit from hiring a technical writer for a project to >>>> improve the Sage documentation. Google Season of Docs is a program >>>> that supports such projects. Some key facts: >>>> - total project budget $5,000 - $15,000 USD (via OpenCollective) - >>>> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/org-payments >>>> - starts April 10 (or May 22 the latest), ends November 22, 2024 - >>>> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline >>>> >>>> Several of our peer projects (NumPy, Matplotlib, SymPy, R, Geomstats) >>>> are among the orgs that appear to have made successful use of this program >>>> in the past few years, see >>>> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/2023/participants >>>> etc. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/32bf06f2-6c35-40a9-855c-857c7af23799n%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/32bf06f2-6c35-40a9-855c-857c7af23799n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_mEgnbGQgJQHuT9rXLJZMtitYe1CxkUG9Fy0iFGqONRHg%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_mEgnbGQgJQHuT9rXLJZMtitYe1CxkUG9Fy0iFGqONRHg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b0f16004-6364-4991-ae6f-7361e3b40ed7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b0f16004-6364-4991-ae6f-7361e3b40ed7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_kkyH0qBCUrrmux2iLfv1bzi32sQ4xt5GmcTPUwsGCchg%40mail.gmail.com.
