On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:42 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 10, 6:35 am, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Simon King wrote: >> >> > Dear all, > > Hi, > >> > 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:-) > > William is an organizer of SD 10.
Officially I'm not (see the wiki page). Though I have been kindly kept in the loop. Regarding registration, there is a link from the wiki to a registration page, where you have to pay 20 euros to register (or 40 more for a dinner on Saturday). William >> 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 :-) > > Yes, if you work on or with Sage it is a good thing to come to a Sage > days. You will likely learn more in a week than in a couple months on > the list. > >> 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? > > So far we have never reached capacity. The main room for talks at SD > 10 holds a couple hundred people, so I am not too concerned about > hitting that limit at the moment :) > >> Cheers, >> Martin > > Cheers, > > Michael >> >> -- >> 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] > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
