[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn wrote: >> >> William Stein wrote: >>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >>> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >>> (e.g., Ma

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >> least

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-02 Thread ghtdak
So, here's the thing... and this is entirely IMHO (some may question whether the "H" applies :-) There's been some off-and-on sidebar chatter on this subject for a while and this thread seems a place to insert it publicly. Sage has a HUGE amount of functionality built in that is very useful to t

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout >> wrote: >>> Ondrej Certik wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: > 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >> 2009/7/1 William Stein : >>> Per

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : > 2009/7/1 William Stein : >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : 2009/7/1 William Stein : > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: >> 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >>> 2009/7/1 William Stein : Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics (e.g., Magma

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: > > 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >> >> 2009/7/1 William Stein : >>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >>> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >>> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) r

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : > > 2009/7/1 William Stein : >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >> least for the time being.

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
2009/7/1 William Stein : > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics > (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at > least for the time being.    I don't have a problem with that >

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, William Stein wrote: > [...] >> Anyway, +1 to their being a BSD'd build system.    Most code in Sage >> is GPL'd because either (1) it is derived from code GPL'd a decade >> ago, or (2) we'll get ripped off b

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, William Stein wrote: [...] > Anyway, +1 to their being a BSD'd build system.    Most code in Sage > is GPL'd because either (1) it is derived from code GPL'd a decade > ago, or (2) we'll get ripped off by the Ma's.    The build system > doesn't fall into either cate

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >>

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: I have to add that not only is Sage very low o

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics > (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at > least for the time being.I don't have a problem with that > pers

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: >>> I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage >>> got the *most* "no" votes from the 30

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> >> The best conclusion I can draw from all this is that for now at least >> I'm going to focus on symbolic/algebraic computation, and let >> Enthought continue to do a great job building the Python numerical >> stack.

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin Horton
William Stein wrote: > > The best conclusion I can draw from all this is that for now at least > I'm going to focus on symbolic/algebraic computation, and let > Enthought continue to do a great job building the Python numerical > stack. I think that the survey results are at least in part a reflec

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > > Howdy, > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: >> I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage >> got the *most* "no" votes from the 30 people who actually voted (tying >> only with Networkx), accord

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > I sort of doubt that most people would make their decisions on what > tools to learn based on licenses, or at least I hope that's the case. To be precise: amongst open source tools. I do use licenses as a criterion: if choosing between a p

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Howdy, On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: > I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage > got the *most* "no" votes from the 30 people who actually voted (tying > only with Networkx), according to the table here: > >    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to b

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread David Joyner
Note that there was already a Python+Sage talk at a recent SIAM conference http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2008/07/python-tools-for-science-go-to-siam.html http://www.ams.org/ams/siam-2008.html#python which was apparently very popular. It may be that those who attended the SIAM conference and who are

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Jul 1, 12:57 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >>    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results... >> >> I don't know if I should interpret this as: > > my interpretation is, that people simply want to learn more ab

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 1, 12:57 pm, William Stein wrote: > >    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results... > > I don't know if I should interpret this as: my interpretation is, that people simply want to learn more about those tools which they already know about. sage isn't part of

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we >>> would like to both announce the plan for

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we >> would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit >> feedback from everyone on topics of i

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit > feedback from everyone on topics of interest. rather than rehash much here, where it's not easy to p

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Fernando Perez wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get >> some feedback from you.  This Doodle poll should take no more than a > > > Does "you" mean "people attending scipy09", or does it mea

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Jason Grout
Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get > some feedback from you. This Doodle poll should take no more than a Does "you" mean "people attending scipy09", or does it mean "sage developers, whether or not you are attending scipy09"?

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get some feedback from you. This Doodle poll should take no more than a couple of minutes to fill out (no password or registration required): http://doodle.com/hb5bea6fivm3b5bk So please let us know which topics you are mos

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-01 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit > feedback from everyone on topics of interest. I hope the above isn't considered too off-topi