Le jeudi 26 octobre 2017 10:54:01 UTC+2, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) a écrit : > > On 9 September 2017 at 10:04, David Roe <roed...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I'd like to organize some online Sage Days, where people gather on >> zulip.sagemath.org and work on Sage together. The two things to be >> decided are >> > > Sounds good. > > 1. What topics should we focus on? >> 2. What days/times work for the most people? >> Some of these may transition into in-person working groups (the IMA has >> funding for small groups to meet there over this coming year to work on >> projects) >> > > I look at a large number of online webinars from companies like Rohde and > Schwarz, Keysight etc. They always seem to arrange them afternoon in the > USA, so they are at a reasonable time in the day for Europe too. > > > >> >> I'll send out a survey for the scheduling part, but I wanted to solicit >> suggestions for topics first. Some ideas: >> >> >> If you'd like me to include other topics in the survey, chime in! >> David >> > > * Some for absolute beginners - it makes sense to make that the first of > these. > * Some for engineers, or others who don't have maths degrees. > * Some for developers. >
The last two subsets should *NOT* be disjoint. Sage may hugely benefit from enhancements in the "undergrad maths/engeneering" and "general infrastructure" departments, if only to recruit new non-math-major users, some of which may become developers in those domains nott exclusively focused on number theory or abstract algebra (BTW : enhancements in the abstract algebra department focused towards undergrads would be useful, too...) > I used to do a lot of work for Sage - in fact I was at one point in the > top 10% of some list William produced. But now the switch from mercurial to > git, and I'm out of it. There are other reasons in my case - I worked > mainly on the port to Solaris, completed that, but Solaris is no longer > tested or working. > Should it be rekindled ? Or should we stop to claim to support Solaris ? BTW : is Solaris still a live platform ? > * A DECENT interface to Mathematica, with a proper API, not using pexpect, > which seems to be rather a poor alternative, which is always breaking. > A good interface to "the competition" is always useful. However, I wouldn't disdain pexpect, which turns out to be surpisingly useful. The current (non-negligible) problems with Mathematica interface seem more related to the lack of proper dictionaries and support functions in Sage (where there are in fact functions to *guess* (!) a translation) than a fundamental interface type problem. A real pair of parsers for what we send to Mathematica and what it returns could be a useful first step... > * NOT OpenSSL. > Please. Problem solved. Implementation underway... -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
