This is a very interesting idea. I was too thinking about a way to easily implement Sage interacts into webpages. I believe this could be a very useful feature; imagine giving the viewers of your page easy access to the full power of Sage! Not only would it be easy to implement mathematical "widgets" for specific functions (Fourier Transforms, for example), but it would be immensely useful for education purposes. It is much easier for a student to use the interact directly from the website instead of opening a notebook account and pasting it. It could be an alternative to Java or Flash applets which seem to be popular for these purposes.
The way I could see this working is with a separate server reserved for interacts (as kcrisman suggests). Worksheets could be published as interacts and would function externally (currently interacts in published worksheets don't work). Presumably, it would also produce easy code for embedding. Wolfram|Alpha widgets work somewhat like this: http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/, but their functionality is quite limited. On Jan 31, 7:45 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.orgwaspretty 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
