Probably obvious that I would be in favor of this getting funded :)
I'm cc:ing this to sage-edu as well, along with the original post.
Link to proposal is
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/attach/1f195a7c190bab0e/research.pdf?part=2
As for comments, probably too late but here goes: After a lot of
discussion with people regarding the issue of education funding, I
think that you can even intensify the argument about educational
funding. It seems that funding something that duplicates currently
available programs (e.g. the Ms but also various os solutions) is not
so hot, while seeking funding to develop course materials/books/
resources/whatever using a full, robust system as it would undoubtedly
be after TWELVE weeks, yikes, of intense work on the nb and symbolics
would have a much stronger chance. And not just from NSF, by the way;
there are lots of other weird non-governmental foundations out there
which like ed stuff and are much more likely to fund improving courses
that already exist (such as by making Sage more responsive that
course) than to fund start-up stuff. I've been mystified at times
where we get money from to do various curricular things, but those
grants exist and we get them - and we're not one of the big boys,
either, so it's not like people are just asking to throw money at us.
- kcrisman
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Hi,
I just wrote a small Sage grant proposal to this program:
http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=rrf
Since it's a Sage proposal it may be of interest to people on
sage-devel. They have very specific requirements so if you read it
and think it's a bizarre proposal, please keep this in mind.
And please tell me about any typos you find, since I have to submit
this tomorrow (in about 10 hours).
-- William
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