[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: the E8 story

2007-11-30 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > You're right -- it would have been vastly better if it had said > something like "A SageOpenSourceMathSoftware Developer"... > In fact, that slashdot article generated very very few hits > on sagemath.org. I think that "A SageMath developer" would have been just fine, especially

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: the E8 story

2007-11-30 Thread William Stein
On Nov 30, 2007 5:58 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > > This is relevant to > > sage-devel, because perhaps one day > > we'll get some publicity :-) [see, e.g, the top article on slashdot > > right now... http://slashdot.org/] > > I can't help but think that "A Sag

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: the E8 story

2007-11-30 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > This is relevant to > sage-devel, because perhaps one day > we'll get some publicity :-) [see, e.g, the top article on slashdot > right now... http://slashdot.org/] I can't help but think that "A SageMath Developer writes" would serve better as a marketing tool than "A Sage De

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: the E8 story

2007-11-30 Thread Fernando Perez
On Nov 30, 2007 1:04 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is how the whole E8 story that involved "the Sage Supercomputer" > (i.e., sage.math.washington.edu) > got started. It's worth reading, since it has a lot of information > aimed at mathematicians about how > the world

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: the E8 story

2007-11-30 Thread alex clemesha
On Nov 30, 2007 12:04 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is how the whole E8 story that involved "the Sage Supercomputer" > (i.e., sage.math.washington.edu) > got started. It's worth reading, since it has a lot of information > aimed at mathematicians about how > the worl