On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Simon King wrote: > Dear all, > > what exactly are Sage Days?
Dear Simon (and anyone else who might be wondering), Sage Days is kind of the catch all name for Sage workshops. Those workshops can be organised by different people or groups of people and vary in style. Until this workshop in Nancy however, William was always one of the organisers, so this one follows a new path:-) One thing that so far all Sage Days had in common is that they were workshops to "get stuff done" (TM): usually a considerable amount of time was allocated for coding sprints, i.e. everybody works on something related to Sage until they run out of steam. "However, like with all of Sage development, participants are encouraged to work on whatever they feel will be the most productive way for them to spend their time." (http://wiki.sagemath.org/dev1) Besides these --- usually quite productive --- coding sprints there are also a fair number of talks. You can see a list of past workshops on the Wiki: http://wiki.sagemath.org/ I'd say one of the reasons Sage has a quite strong community is that these workshops happen (quite often), where developers can meet face to face, discuss, resolve issues. > My work on computational group cohomology relies on Sage, so i guess > my university would give me travel support for attending Sage Days. On > the other hand: I don't know if "using Sage" and "occasionally writing > a few lines of code" qualifies for attending Sage Days. AFAIK there is no requirement for attending a Sage Days except maybe some interest in Sage :-) Even for 'dev1' a special workshop strictly aimed at Sage developers the Wiki writes: """ Anybody can participate, but funding will be aimed primarily at people who have demonstrated a substantial ability to contribute to the Sage project. (This is not a general Sage statement -- it's just for this workshop.) """ So by all means attend :-) I am not an organiser of this workshop (SD10) though, so I have no clue how many places are (still) available. Michael, can you enlighten us? 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
