On Friday, September 27, 2013 12:59:30 PM UTC-4, William wrote: > > From somebody: > > "Does anyone know about workshops to train faculty to use/teach SAGE > (ie uses related to the undergraduate course contents)? We are not > able to afford the Mathematica site license (no help from other campus > users), so we're investigating open source options." > > Sweet.
++ You know, I've thought for a long time that we should have a list of "official Sage workshop leaders" or something of people who would be willing to fly/drive out at cost (say mileage + meals) to give workshops of this type. The PREP workshops were great, but most of us have moved on to other things, and it's not realistic for us to have a stable of people to do these like Maple or even Geogebra do unless we have enough requests to actually *hire* someone, which I think would make doing this more expensive (though it's also worth considering what a reasonable price would be). I do this as often as I can all over New England, but the reality is that we don't actually know about many of the people who want this, or *would* want it if only they knew and instead stick with what they have or do not use computation at this level. It would be nice to have a map of where such people were located (in the US, for example, though worldwide would be great too), for a start. One hindrance; it would be hard to have an arbitrary line of who is "able" to do them, but presumably one would not want to just allow anyone to sign up to do such workshops that came in off the electronic street. I don't know how to resolve this, as by its nature this is a highly decentralized effort and we don't want to impose a more linear structure, other than BDFL -> everyone else. Thoughts? - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
