William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe <qed...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative >> mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would >> be useful in fully-fledged forums? For example, one might embed a live >> cell with a plot, equation, derivation, etc., in a post, in order to >> illustrate a point in a thread about smooth operators, rank tensors, >> etc. Thoughts? > > Yes! +1 It would be great to have things like that. > >> (MathLinks, which is oriented to problem solving, appears to be the most >> prominent example of LaTeX-enabled forums: >> >> http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/index.php >> >> Their software appears to be a heavily customized version of phpBB. >> Other examples, especially blogs, abound.) >> >> My apologies for my ignorance and naivete. > > Well you're just right that it would be great to have some new web-app > that uses similar underlying technology to the Sage notebook, but is > more like facebook or some sort of community driven discussion and > collaboration environment.
Similarly, but perhaps on a smaller scale, a Sage wiki extension could go well beyond the usual but static equations and plots. Implementation, alas, is still well beyond me. > I really hope somebody does something in this direction. I suspect > some of the thoughts Mike Hansen, Timothy Clemans, Alex Clemesha, and > others have had about using Django to revamp the Sage notebook would > be relevant. > Something like the above might also make a good project to pitch to > Google for funding... > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
