> > My suggestions for improvements would be: > > Consolidate the forum. It is the main communication platform of the > > project (together with the trac system). It might be a good idea to > > reduce to maybe 3 google groups (Devel, Support, Users). One thing > > that bogs me is that in the current groups there are lists with no new > > postings for long time, and then there are other lists where postings > > fall "off the radar" very quickly, because there is much traffic and > > the listing on the front page is rather short. I don't know if this > > debatable at all, but there are other and more flexible forum/mailing > > list packages out there, which give more possibilities with user > > interaction (like attachements). > > Deleting other forums might alienate the people that lobbied for their > creation, and who do use them, so closing the other forums is not > going to happen.
+1 also for those of us who don't want to wade through traffic in disciplines somewhat far from our expertise. > > > Since it was said that sage needs more people with engineering > > background: > > I think a cool thing would be a forum for users, where they can > > present their work with sage and also interact and work together on a > > project. Something like Wolfram Demonstration project, but even more > > community driven. So to say: give people the space to be an expert > > user of sage and be a respected member of the community without being > > a top notch programmer at sage-devel. > > That is a good idea. Why don't you research open source web apps that > could provide something like that? I better there is something ready > made, just likehttp://ask.sagemath.orgwas pretty much ready made. I > would be happy to provide the hardware resources to host something. Making the interacts doable without logging in (on the docket, I know) and then making the interact library MUCH more extensive than #9623 will make them (please review! I just need a review of a reviewer patch!) will essentially give us a Demonstrations-like thing. It might even be useful to have a server which only served low-load interacts, interact.sagenb.org or something... for Mma Demos I think you need both Player and to download the interact, as opposed to a Geogebra applet one can just put in a webpage (which would also be nice, but probably not practical for Sage). Also, there definitely *is* space for such people at Sage, and there are quite a few; however, many of them fill that role without posting much on sage-devel. sage-support and sage-edu have many such contributors. Most people I've met on the pedagogical side who use Sage *use* it, and are glad they don't have to know much programming to do so. - kcrisman -- 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
