Since this sort of decision should be made pretty early in the year I wanted to open a discussion on it.
Sage has had two exhibition booths at the national (US) joint math meetings, in 2008 and 2009. This year we did not have a booth. I think those booths were extremely helpful in making people more aware of Sage. My impression is that now somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 of academic mathematicians have heard of Sage, but most do not have a clear idea of exactly what it is and what it can do. If we had a booth at the 2011 meetings, I think it would be important to have a good graphical display - i.e. at least one good-sized monitor, ideally 2. William Stein obtained a great monitor for 2008, but its unclear how to repeat that in New Orleans. Overall I think it would be worthwhile to have another booth if enough people can pitch in. It does take a lot of effort. While it costs money, at least 2 people get exhibitor registrations (maybe 3?). For the money (less than $1000 total I think) its probably the most effective way to get the attention of many mathematicians. I would be willing to help organize and run a booth in 2011 if some other people could commit to that as well. I do not have a source of funding for it at the moment but if we start now it shouldn't be too hard to find. Any thoughts? -Marshall Hampton -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
