On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <novos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:49:50 UTC-6, Nils Bruin wrote: >> >> On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:45:20 PM UTC-7, Christopher Swenson >> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any use case for sagenb.org, or a potential replacement, that >>> isn't covered by SageMathCloud? >> >> A public notebook server gives people an opportunity to try out sage with >> exactly the interface they would be able to have with a local install. The >> interface provided by SageMathCloud is hard to replicate otherwise. > > > That's actually quite a serious problem with SMC that I didn't think much > about before, although it surely has been mentioned by others: new users of > Sage introduced to it via SMC are quite locked in since they cannot use > their worksheets without SMC, even though they can download them, and they > can't even start from scratch on a local installation without learning a new > interface first, with all the differences between interact and plotting > implementations. These users are also likely to lack knowledge necessary for > writing/improving conversion scripts...
1. This seems like a good place to advertise the GSoC project "Create a personal GPL-licensed version of SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com) that is included with every copy of Sage.", which nobody applied for (deadline tomorrow?): http://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2015#SageMathCloud This will get done one way or another eventually, but I can't make it my top priority right now. 2. The following comment isn't necessarily very important in the context of our discussion about sagenb, but it's worth making. I think (based on data not just making things up) that most users of SMC are unlikely to ever consider using Sage outside SMC. This is because the majority of SMC users (maybe 90%?) are students in courses who are being asked to use it for that one class by their instructor. Then there's people collaborating on a research project and using the latex/coding/markdown/ipython notebook functionality of SMC, but not Sage itself much. There are some traditional research-oriented core Sage users using SMC, but they are definitely in the minority. 3. Another relevant data point: last week there were 5,455 "returning users" of SageMathCloud versus 768 "returning users" of sagenb.org. William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-notebook" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-notebook+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-notebook. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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/d/optout.
