[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-11 Thread Yi Qiang
Thanks Bobby, I'll try to set up planet.sagemath.org when finals are over :) In the mean time, anyone (William?) care to write a introductory blog article that we can feature when it's all up and running? You do not have to wait for planetsage to be running to do this! Cheers, Yi http://yiqiang

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-11 Thread Bobby Moretti
This error seems to be due to the python install that you're using. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which python /usr/local/bin/python It seems to get past this step if you do: /usr/bin/python /home/yqiang/planet/planet.py /home/yqiang/planetsage/fancy/config.ini the python interpreter at /usr/bin/python i

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 10, 2007 9:53 PM, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think there are two steps: > > 1) start a blog - wordpress is frickin' easy to set up. For that, you'd go to > > http://wordpress.org/download/ > > - grab the software, untar, set up apache to serve the directory (so > perhaps

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 10, 2007 4:07 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would say that unless you are really serious about blogging, using > hosted blogging is even easier. Try blogspot > (http://www.blogspot.com). Agreed. It's owned by google, so from a gmail account you can just click "more" in the

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Yi Qiang
I would say that unless you are really serious about blogging, using hosted blogging is even easier. Try blogspot (http://www.blogspot.com). As for setting up planet.sagemath.org, I tried to set it up on sage.math.washington.edu last night but ran into this problem: In [1]: import bsddb

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Bobby Moretti
I think there are two steps: 1) start a blog - wordpress is frickin' easy to set up. For that, you'd go to http://wordpress.org/download/ - grab the software, untar, set up apache to serve the directory (so perhaps you would want something like http://wstein.org/blog) - pt-get install mysql an

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread William Stein
On Dec 10, 2007 12:15 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007 8:07 PM, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Very cool. Now I just need to find time to blog! :) > > And that's exactly the point of the planet, you don't have to find > time to blog regularly. If t

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 10, 2007 8:07 PM, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very cool. Now I just need to find time to blog! :) And that's exactly the point of the planet, you don't have to find time to blog regularly. If there are enough people on it, and if the atmosphere is that they mark by "sage"

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Bobby Moretti
Very cool. Now I just need to find time to blog! :) On Dec 10, 2007 10:51 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2007 10:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi bobby, What didier said is right. > > I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-10 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 9, 2007 10:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi bobby, What didier said is right. > I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much > experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it > will be possible). Yes, I use it regularly

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMA

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMA

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread didier deshommes
2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* > my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For that, your blog software would have to know how to generate an rss feed for your tag only. For example, if yo

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Bobby Moretti
If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For example, the second post on planet gnome right now is about Dennis Kucinitch... -Bobby On Dec 9, 2007 10:55 AM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, the

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Yi Qiang
Ok, there seems to be enough interest for this idea. I think the next step will be actually finding out HOW many of us blog, or would be willing to start blogging about SAGE. http://wiki.sagemath.org/planetsage Please go there and put a link to your blog if you have one, or make an entry saying

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Michael. Thanks for the heads up on SAGE+R. Where can I be updated when changes arrive ? Tal. On Dec 9, 3:53 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Tal, > > > I'm in the middle of writing documenta

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Timothy. Thanks for the detailed answer. I couldn't hold myself and opened up a blog named: sagemath.wordpress.com If any one wishes to take upon himself to enter content into it - he can just create a user name at: http://wordpress.com/signup/ And Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the Email you s

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
It helpful for me if you guys came up with some recommendations for cleanup of the wiki and any wishlists you may have for it. I would incorporate that discussion into the future ticket called "Improve Sage Wiki" for GHOP. Thanks! On Dec 9, 5:53 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tal, > > I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university > students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation > Contest. One ticket will be "Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 > minute scr

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
Hi Tal, I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation Contest. One ticket will be "Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 minute screencast demonstrating input evaluation, docstring and source lookup, tab-co

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Robert and everyone. a few small suggestions 1) the main page gives lots of options SAGE has, but no direct links to tutorial material . and when I went to the tutorial page - I couldn't find instructions on how to do what the main page promised me. I am guessing the bounce rate for the main p

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
+1 to the planet.sagemath.org idea, including official blog with release announcements, bug and Sage days info, etc. A semi-official, regular (weekly? authorship could rotate) "tips and tricks" blog could be good too, and another idea would be a regular "How do I ___ in Sage" which could ta

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I think perhaps eventually we could move to something like this, but now is not the time. Though I have no way of verifying this, I would hypothesize that many more people come to the site to find out what sage is/what it can do for them than come to see "What's new with SAGE since last ti

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello peoples. I am a newbie statistician using R. and just came across SAGE and your warm community. I also have some knowledge concerning Blogs (mainly WordPress.org blogs) , and could advice you as follows: 1) if you have little time to meddle - start a blog at wordpress.com 2) if you have mor

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 7:04 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I was just going to say the same thing. planet.sagemath.org is > the way to go. Besides developers blogs, there can also be an official > blog (with several core sage developers having a write access to), > where official thing

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
Yes, I was just going to say the same thing. planet.sagemath.org is the way to go. Besides developers blogs, there can also be an official blog (with several core sage developers having a write access to), where official things will be announced. Its true, that writing a blog requires time, but i

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread alex clemesha
On Dec 8, 2007 8:09 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, depending on how many SAGE developers blog at all, we should > consider a planet.sagemath.org style blog. The idea is the planet.* > is an aggregator of blogs it subscribes to and publishes blogs with > specific tags. For

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread Yi Qiang
Actually, depending on how many SAGE developers blog at all, we should consider a planet.sagemath.org style blog. The idea is the planet.* is an aggregator of blogs it subscribes to and publishes blogs with specific tags. For example, planet.sagemath.org would subscribe to Mike Hanson, Martin Al

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 7:03 PM, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the very least, I think it would be a good idea to use a content > management system for the website. That's a really good idea. Mike Hansen has been getting really into Django lately, so maybe he can help with that. Using

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread Bobby Moretti
At the very least, I think it would be a good idea to use a content management system for the website. The front page could be blog-like, containing mostly news, updates, info, and releases. Then if someone has a personal blog entry that says something interesting about Sage, we can just link to

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-08 Thread didier deshommes
2007/12/8, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > My brother suggests that a "Sage blog" be somehow created (see below). It's > a good idea. Any ideas about what this might entail? Weekly developer > summaries? A "cool trick"? Little articles? Etc. I have never blogged +1 This co