On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > "1) Be friendly and patient." (sorry can't resist)
:-) You're right -- I guess after 10 years, I'm starting to seriously lose my patience. > I would say that most of us are only using Sage for research, and that > we are not the kind of developpers who will fulfull your mission Good point -- I'm cross posting this to the sage-edu mailing list. > statement. We would all be happy if we can say one day that "Sage is > the best software to work on <insert your research field here>". Unfortunately, Sage is still very, very far from being that in arithmetic geometry (my field)... > You probably need people here who behave more as teachers than > researchers. There is a wealth of math topics that none of us deals > with, because we are so specialized. You're right -- we definitely need to encourage way more such people to get involved with Sage. > How would you attract teachers here? How would you convince them that > Sage is THE tool for teaching ? (no mention of research) Great questions! I could start by being more friendly and patient. Gregory Bard did a lot this year in that direction though, with his book. Paul Zimmerman did a huge amount in that direction with the French book he edited on Sage for undergrad teaching (which was a huge project). -- William > > Nathann > > -- > 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-de...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
