[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-12-12 Thread Jaap Spies
Ronan Paixão wrote: > It would be nice to see how that ad will impact sage's site measures. > I wonder. There are only 1800 subscribers, mostly from The Netherlands. I'm more curious to know how some notorious Magma users will react! Hi Wieb. Jaap --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-12-12 Thread Ronan Paixão
It would be nice to see how that ad will impact sage's site measures. Em Sex, 2008-12-12 às 16:12 +0100, Jaap Spies escreveu: > Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 13:52, Jaap Spies wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Today the postman delivered the journal! See my scan. > >> > > > > Very c

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-12-12 Thread Jaap Spies
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 13:52, Jaap Spies wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today the postman delivered the journal! See my scan. >> > > Very cool. Let's wait and see what happens! > Still wondering whether there is a connection between content and the advertisement. Didn't find a re

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-12-12 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 13:52, Jaap Spies wrote: > Hi, > > Today the postman delivered the journal! See my scan. > Very cool. Let's wait and see what happens! H --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-13 Thread Ronan Paixão
> > Sometime in January, I plan to get a public notebook server going and > > I'd like to have some PR material ready to go. > > When you do plan to get this server going, let me know. The new sagenb.org, > which is just a 64-bit linux vmware machine, seems to be actually working > extremely we

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-13 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 at 01:31AM -0800, Harald Schilly wrote: >> On Nov 13, 8:25 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > ... is there any progress on that front? >> >> Hi, yes and no, I still have it in my head but no time

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 at 01:31AM -0800, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Nov 13, 8:25 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... is there any progress on that front? > > Hi, yes and no, I still have it in my head but no time at the moment. > Is there a certain deadline? I could try if I can do somet

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-13 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 13, 8:25 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... is there any progress on that front? Hi, yes and no, I still have it in my head but no time at the moment. Is there a certain deadline? I could try if I can do something this weekend. Any specific wishes for the size? I assume your

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Drake
So I printed the lovely Sage advertisement and put it on my door. There was talk about making a more colorful version for a nice flyer or small poster; is there any progress on that front? I ask because I have some grant money which (near as I can tell) I have to spend on "clerical" expenses. Some

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-29 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 28, 3:19 pm, mabshoff and others wrote: > T-shirt! T-shirt! T-shirt! :) Uhm, just printing this ad on a t-shirt won't work. First the color version, then (I assume) wallpaper edition and then I'll think about t- shirts :) h --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:19 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Thx, and very cool ;) >> Yes, sure, promote what you can, that's the reason for doing such a >> graphic. If you want a version with colors, i can hurry a bit - or if >> you need it in another size, tell me the measuremen

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 04:03 , Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. >>How does it look without that? > > It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the > first

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It looks great! It's by my office door now. We will be having a >> conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can >> I use this as a promotional flyer? > > Thx, and very cool ;) > Yes

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 7:16 am, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks great!  It's by my office door now.  We will be having a > > conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can > > I use this as a prom

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks great! It's by my office door now. We will be having a > conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can > I use this as a promotional flyer? Thx, and very cool ;) Yes, sure, promote what you can, tha

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. >> How does it look without that? > > It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the > first place ;) > Contrasts are cha

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. > How does it look without that? It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the first place ;) Contrasts are changed in a way, that it is always r

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu Oct 23 2008 at 2:57 PM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 4 up: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/ad/ > > H I think that's really good! I'm definitely printing it out and putting it on my office door. Dan -- --- Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - KAIST De

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:42 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is very nice. I think softening the graph has helped a lot. > > One final nit-pick is that I am pretty sure it is more correct to > hyphenate open-source. I briefly worked as a copyeditor, and before I > was fired I tr

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread mhampton
This is very nice. I think softening the graph has helped a lot. One final nit-pick is that I am pretty sure it is more correct to hyphenate open-source. I briefly worked as a copyeditor, and before I was fired I tried hard to learn hyphenation rules (it was for a journal that I was actually in

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Jaap Spies
Dan Drake wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 at 04:56PM -0700, mhampton wrote: [...] > >> I'm curious why this is going in a newspaper - ? > > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~naw/index.php?taal=1: > > "The Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde is the quarterly journal of the Royal > Dutch Mathematical Socie

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Minh Nguyen
Craig Citro wrote: > This looks awesome. I want this on a poster on my door ... and on a t-shirt. > :) +1 -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen Web: http://nguyenminh2.googlepages.com Blog: http://mvngu.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send emai

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 23, 2008, at 15:03 , Craig Citro wrote: > > This looks awesome. I want this on a poster on my door ... and on a > t-shirt. :) +1. :-} Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds --- Like the ski resort full of girls hunting f

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:57 , Harald Schilly wrote: > > Version 4 up: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/ad/ I think it looks really nice. Two comments: - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. How does it look without that? It doesn't seem quite as bad in the .pn

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Craig Citro
This looks awesome. I want this on a poster on my door ... and on a t-shirt. :) -cc On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Version 4 up: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/ad/ > > H > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ T

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Harald Schilly
Version 4 up: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/ad/ H --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://gro

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 23, 3:04 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 at 04:56PM -0700, mhampton wrote: > > I don't really like the bottom, it seems too busy to me with the graph > > in the background. I really like the top three panels. > > I agree, the graph seems a bit much...but the

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Ronan Paixão wrote: > I also believe the bottom graph looks noisy. > Maybe clipping only the first third of the graph and stretching it to > fill the ad's width could make it better? I actually like the graph at the bottom, but it also depends on how large a format

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Ronan Paixão
I also believe the bottom graph looks noisy. Maybe clipping only the first third of the graph and stretching it to fill the ad's width could make it better? Otherwise, it looks like a very quality work. What did you use to design it? Inkscape? , Ronan Paixão Em Qua, 2008-10-22 às 16:56 -0700, m

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 at 05:36PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > For me, one of the very big features on the notebook is that it's online > and it enhances collaboration. It's very easy for me to post up a > worksheet for my class or my collaborators can download or modify. So > what about making th

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 at 04:56PM -0700, mhampton wrote: > I don't really like the bottom, it seems too busy to me with the graph > in the background. I really like the top three panels. I agree, the graph seems a bit much...but the ad will be 190mm; if it looks better when printed, then I say keep

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread mhampton
I don't really like the bottom, it seems too busy to me with the graph in the background. I really like the top three panels. I'm curious why this is going in a newspaper - ? Cheers, Marshall On Oct 22, 5:01 pm, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, as those who attended SD10 a

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks beautiful. It looks fine to me. Some grammatical ideas: > (a) I think you can say "open source" instead of "open-source, even though > what you have is correct. On a note of consistency, the text "open-source"

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Timothy Clemans
A company doesn't need to register a trademark in order to use the "TM" symbol. Maybe you should ask the advertising agency if you need a notice stating that Mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research, etc or if you need the "TM" symbol at all. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Hara

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi all, as those who attended SD10 already know, I was working on an > advertisement for Sage. Before it gets actually printed (on real > paper), I want to collect some feedback, especially since I've never > done such a thing before... What bothers me most is the text, ple

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 23, 12:29 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, we could put the TM in anyways for > symmetry, ... yes, that's true, but i have no idea if it is necessary at all. Also, if a (in my eyes) silly "TM" is enough. It also depends if it is a trademark where it is printed an

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
This looks very good! In the last paragraph, I might reword it as "You can interact with and manipulate mathematical objects through the powerful notebook interface." Also, what does it look like if you left-justify the smaller text? - Robert On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, David Joyner wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Harald Schilly wrote: >> Hi all, as those who attended SD10 already know, I was working on an >> advertisement for Sage. Before it gets actually printed (on real >> paper), I want to collect some feedback, especially since

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi all, as those who attended SD10 already know, I was working on an > advertisement for Sage. Before it gets actually printed (on real > paper), I want to collect some feedback, especially since I've never > done such a thing before... What bothers me most is the text, ple

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
This looks beautiful. It looks fine to me. Some grammatical ideas: (a) I think you can say "open source" instead of "open-source, even though what you have is correct. (b) Possibly "Python based" should be Python-based". (c) "Numerous methods ..." Could be worded "Use the numerous software package

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, as those who attended SD10 already know, I was working on an > advertisement for Sage. Before it gets actually printed (on real > paper), I want to collect some feedback, especially since I've never > done such