I'd be happy with any progress on symbolics, and Ralf did already a great job there!
Just to spell out the obvious, software engineers are actually sought-after by industry (unlike mathematicians, let's face it). If you want to hire a top-notch engineer who's in it for the money then you'll have to pay a good deal more than the average math prof salary. On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 11:27:01 AM UTC+2, Viviane Pons wrote: > > To answer more precisely: the engineers who will be recruited will be > engineers and not mathematician, so they will work mostly on > non-mathematical improvement. For the mathematical content, we will still > rely on the good will of researchers (even though, some of our time is also > given to OpenDreamKit). This said, there will be many sage days and > development days organized through the OpenDreamKit project and it also > seems to me that symbolics would indeed be an interesting subject. > > 2015-06-30 1:48 GMT+02:00 Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com <javascript:>>: > >> >> >> On Sunday, 28 June 2015 09:43:51 UTC+1, Ralf Stephan wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I understand the jobs are funded to improve usability, mainly. >>> I have categorized the last 110 questions on ask.sagemath and >>> these are the components affected, sorted: >>> >>> symbolics 22 >>> algebra 14 >>> build/install 12 >>> plotting/graphics 11 >>> linear algebra 10 >>> packages: standard 5 >>> cloud 5 >>> ... >>> >>> So, will there be some work on symbolics? >>> >> >> shhh, this funding is not meant for improving core Sage. :-) >> Read the grant proposal if you don't believe me. >> Having said that, people might want to work overtime for free, sometimes >> ;-) >> >> >>> Regards, >>> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
