On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote:

> Harald Schilly wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 11:27 am, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ... but I think the canvas back end has a
>>> decent chance of being funded.
>>
>> Yes, but first of all, this week until the 13th we need to have a
>> proposal for Sage as a mentor group. Therefore it should focus on  
>> such
>> tasks that have no maths background and average IT students are able
>> to solve them. Later on, iff Sage is selected as a mentor group and
>> students submit proposals for different tasks (integration, etc.) it
>> could be discussed. If Sage is not selected, nothing will happen :\
>> So, I hope some mentors pop up and we manage to write a decent
>> proposal in the next few days! There is enough non-maths stuff that
>> needs to be done.

+1 to all the suggestions to improving plotting. I think that's an  
area that could be tackled by someone with less math background, and  
also produce tangible results.

> Is Cython going to be entering again this year?  What about scipy/ 
> numpy,
> sympy, ginac, or other projects that Sage relies on?  I can see
> enhancing pynac as falling under the ginac project, for example.

It doesn't look like we'll have enough potential mentors to be a full  
organization, but we'll probably try and do a project or two under  
the Python umbrella (or perhaps even scipy/numpy).

- Robert


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