Sorry! I posted a question and I thought this was a response to my question! Ignore me. My apologies.
********************************************* Tessa F. Weinstein, Ph.D. www.tessatutors.com ********************************************* On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM Tessa Weinstein <tfweinst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not using it in a course. I don't work at a university. There is no IT > department. I'm it. It's for me and my personal use. I'm a professional > math tutor who makes content for her students and wants to automate using > it with LaTeX, that's all. > > > ********************************************* > Tessa F. Weinstein, Ph.D. > www.tessatutors.com > ********************************************* > > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > >> On Friday, 22 August 2025 at 23:59:52 UTC-7 aska...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> In any case, that's beyond the point. Sure, one can "demand" but the >> actual nature of the power relationship at many unis is a different one. >> I'm sure our CS department would prefer Linux running in the computers that >> their students use and tried demanding this but it didn't work, which makes >> it difficult to run certain courses. I currently don't teach but when I do >> again, if I want to run classes with Sage (increasing the teaching base), I >> will sadly require a non WSL option (which, as I say, we still have as they >> kept 9.1 although I suppose at one time it'll go). >> >> >> I'd definitely recommend offering cloud access to sagemath if you require >> its use for a course. It removes all installation issues. You could try to >> get IT to set up a cloud server for you that runs locally but in a shop >> that's gone full MS (as it sounds in your case) they'd probably much rather >> pay for an outsourced version, in which case cocalc is probably worth >> checking out. >> >> Students who are interested in installing it on their own computer will >> be able to do it -- and those students would definitely have a machine that >> is not insanely locked down (is your university making available >> (university managed) laptops to all students? That's quite the service! >> Otherwise, the laptops that students have will not be locked down by IT, >> because those are not their machines). >> >> -- >> 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 visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/565424d9-e4fd-4704-8f34-411bdbf39cf6n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/565424d9-e4fd-4704-8f34-411bdbf39cf6n%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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAPFwps-BFHm3D53-jK13xmF8KoBgxpemxgat8LuwewZ079upJg%40mail.gmail.com.
