On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:56 PM, lfmartins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to get input on how people has set up sage in academic > environments. To be more concrete, let me tell my ideas on how to set > up sage in my department, and what the problems are.. > > Currently, we have labs for exclusive use of the mathematics > department. Unfortunately, our lab computers all run Windows (XP, most > of them, with a few Vistas). We don't have a file server or > application server, though: students have a login they have to use to > access campus computers, but they don't have centralized storage space > (yes, they save their work in USB drivers). So here are the > possibilities I am thinking about (please don't be afraid to say that > any of them are just plain stupid...)
You didn't say if this is a classroom lab (so all of your students will be using Sage at once) or a math computer lab for out-of-class homework (so students will go in at random times, convenient for them). Others can answer your questions more definitively than I but I think their answer will depend on the number of students using Sage at the same time. > > 1. Run Sage under VMWare player in each machine. Pros: easy to set up. > Cons: have buy license for VMWare software. This could be worked out > through an internal grant, but I still see the problem that, to keep > student's work separate, each one would have to have his/her own copy > of the virtual machine. And then, they would have to transfer their > work using a USB drive anyway. Why do you have to buy a license for VMWare player? I don't use windows, but my students do and my understanding was that it was free. A few of my students installed Sage on their windows machines and I think if they had to pay something they would definitely have told me. > > 2. Boot sage from the CDROM, have students store their work in USB > drive. Pros: can do it without telling about it to admins. Cons: don't > know if they will be happy. I've done this with several students. They seem fine with it. I handed out live Sage CDs that I burned myself and no one reported problems with it. > > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). > Here is where I think it might be wise to use VMWare and a non-free version. I would search the sage-devel and/or sage-support archives for posts by Wiliam Stein on how he set up the latest version of the server at sagenb.com. > The only other option I see would be to create user accounts for > students in the server that runs Ubuntu. I really don't want to think > about that, however. I never did sysadmin, and don't really want to > get into it. Actually, ubuntu has a nice gui for that and t is really easy. It might be worth thinking about for just a few of your students (if they are computer-savvy and trustworthy enough). Please report back on your experiences, especially any problems. Also, out of curiousity, where are you teaching? > > Felipe Martins > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
