Hi all, first I want to thank for any feedback, and yes I've read everything and instead of replying to all postings I worked on improving the page (no, not online right now ... I'll tell you ;)
First, since I'm not a native speaker, i have no real feeling for a cool/catchy/sexy language. Therefore any feedback on the sentences itself are very very welcome. Feel free to rewrite parts, add new things, just email me... Of course, you are also invited to write something if you like. I know that the features/tour/screenshots/what is this about? - page is far from being ready. Simply because I'm still working on some details nobody will probably ever notice. So, a short introduction into educational or research features, suiteable for the webpage, are very welcome. (currently, my aim is to replace it with a feature-tour (or simply "tour") page, starting with an outline like on the index page, splitted into categories like: quickstart, education, research, ...) On May 14, 4:33 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People *will* decide > between using Sage and not based on just the web page, so this > really does matter. Yes, that's a bit silly, but true. Sadly, there is no black and white true/false system of how to represent Sage on the WWW. Therefore I hope to satisfy most wishes, but htere are also technical constraints, my personal ideas, etc. ... > 3. The title is "Sage Computer Algebra System". I personally really > don't like the term .... Well, I can remember a thread exactly about this 1 month or more ago. There was no final decision how to call Sage in full. Maybe there is a final solution now? Do we need a vote? (Changing the title is easy for me and i could change it every day, but that's probably not the best solution, either ;) > > 4. I think the dash in "open-source" ... I am just doing what aspell en_US tells me. Maybe it is wrong anyways... > > 5. This sentence on the opening page is horrible: That's another big big issue that needs someone other than me to resolve it. Actually, there are two introduction texts: 1) the one on the webpage, this should explain what sage is, can do, and what it could provide for the reader (that's my definition of a suiteable introduciton text). please help me ;) 2) there are search engines out there, and they probably take this text and show it under the sagemath.org link. to gain some control over what they pick ,there is the meta-description text. this is a shorter introduction and probably most important, because it decides if someone clicks it in a search engine (unless there is an exact word matching ...) currently: "Sage is an open source computer algebra system based on existing open source software packages. Its capabilities encompass a huge range of (higher) mathematics like algebra, calculus and graph theory." I'm not happy with it, and well, there is a 250 character limit. so, for all who had the patience to read until here: the subdirectory / sandbox shows my current working space. I'll answer more on the feedback later, I think there were also some general problems with the server (timeouts) and well, it isn't prime time ready right now. Well, and my feedback to the feedback: Please check the content (really the text and meaning behind) .. for example, are those three python introductions in "help" good, is the emphasis ok?, anything left? It is important to include something to learn python and it should be suiteable for total beginners and also for advanced programmers. Also, don't provide too much. Nobody know what to pick and ignores it. Things like this are probably more important than anything else. Harald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
