Hold that thought Rob. I'm not joking around. If you have been a significant contributor to this sort of thing, you sound like exactly the sort of person to have contributing to and working on such an enterprise.
This is so easy to get going it isn't funny. We could simply start with a website which collects Sage Notebook expositions and surveys in one place. When there are sufficiently high quality articles, we could start sending the best articles to be formally refereed, etc. and then just let the whole thing grow organically from there. I want to ask around and see what people think of the idea, and maybe start a separate thread for it, and just see what feedback there is. If the idea is generally received positively, I think I am just going to do it. If I do decide to go ahead with it, would you be interested in being involved? Is there anyone else reading the thread who thinks they might be interested? Any reasons why this is a really bad idea? Bill. On 12 Apr, 07:24, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Well, I really was just joking around about the "distinguished" > bit. ;-) > > You've got some great points. Maintaining version x.y.z of the > necessary software is a very interesting idea, though I'd guess maybe > at some point the lifetime of hardware might end up being a limiting > factor? > > I agree 100% with your thoughts about the absence of page limits. No > dead-tree publisher would touch my open-source linear algebra textbook > which now runs to about 850-900 full-size pages, but is also available > as PDFs or web pages. But readers (students) are forever telling me > how much they appreciate having every last detail included if they > feel the need to read/study something that closely. > > Where do I submit my teaching expositions? ;-) > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
