Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-09-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >>> Another idea is something like wolfram alpha: >>> it's on my todo to do something like "sympy gamma". And then something >>> for femhub (femhub.org) a

Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-09-01 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> Another idea is something like wolfram alpha: >> it's on my todo to do something like "sympy gamma". And then something >> for femhub (femhub.org) and PDEs, so this could be used with Sage too. > > I think that i

Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-09-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Ondrej Certik wrote: > Another idea is something like wolfram alpha: > > http://www.wolframalpha.com/ > > it's on my todo to do something like "sympy gamma". And then something > for femhub (femhub.org) and PDEs, so this could be used with Sage too. > Besides being a cool thing (I really like w

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-31 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Joyner > wrote: > > Things I think would be cool: > > 1) spreadsheet functionality, > > > Hello, > > Does anybody know of an *open source* (so could be included in Sage) > AJAX spreadsheet

Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-31 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:14 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, William Stein wrote: >> > >> ... >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > Does anybody know of an *open source* (so could be included in Sage) >> > AJAX >> > s

Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-31 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > ... > > > > Hello, > > > > Does anybody know of an *open source* (so could be included in Sage) AJAX > > spreadsheet implementation? I.e., something kind of like Google docs > >

Re: [codenode-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-31 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, William Stein wrote: > ... > > Hello, > > Does anybody know of an *open source* (so could be included in Sage) AJAX > spreadsheet implementation?   I.e., something kind of like Google docs > spreadsheet or http://www.editgrid.com/, but open source.   That is, > som

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-31 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Joyner wrote: > Things I think would be cool: > > 1) spreadsheet functionality, > Hello, Does anybody know of an *open source* (so could be included in Sage) AJAX spreadsheet implementation? I.e., something kind of like Google docs spreadsheet or http://

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > > > Oh, the OS X Readme should really be updated (and the 64-bit build > > instructions added). > > On OS X 10.5.8 with GCC 4.0.1, I ran the following commands > > $ SAGE64=yes > $ ex

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > Oh, the OS X Readme should really be updated (and the 64-bit build > instructions added). On OS X 10.5.8 with GCC 4.0.1, I ran the following commands $ SAGE64=yes $ export SAGE64 $ make prior to building these versions of Sage: 4.0, 4.0.1,

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > > > How would this work on Mac? It'd be awesome to just use gfortran > > everywhere, because petsc4py doesn't install with g95, and it would > > save me some hours if I don't have to d

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > How would this work on Mac? It'd be awesome to just use gfortran > everywhere, because petsc4py doesn't install with g95, and it would > save me some hours if I don't have to debug g95 no more. > > Ondrej > It's my understanding that the 64

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Chris Swierczewski > wrote: >> >> sage-devel and Randy, (cc. Kyle Mandli) >> >> > Chris is working on a Sage spkg interface so that it can be easily >> > installed as an optional package. >> >> This rai

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > > Now for a development question: should I include automatic svn/hg/git > > checkout and compilation of the above packages (those that aren't > > already in Sage) in Clawpack's spkg-install script? Is tha

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Now for a development question: should I include automatic svn/hg/git > checkout and compilation of the above packages (those that aren't > already in Sage) in Clawpack's spkg-install script? Is that the > standard procedure for optional spkgs? I can of cour

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Chris Swierczewski wrote: > > sage-devel and Randy, (cc. Kyle Mandli) > > > Chris is working on a Sage spkg interface so that it can be easily > > installed as an optional package. > > This raises another licensing-related issue: Clawpack requires the > following

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Chris Swierczewski
sage-devel and Randy, (cc. Kyle Mandli) > Chris is working on a Sage spkg interface so that it can be easily > installed as an optional package. This raises another licensing-related issue: Clawpack requires the following libraries and Python packages (these requirements are, unfortunately, not

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Sage is an excellent tool for taking the drugery out of doing maths > but elementary school is more about the fundamentals of arithmetic. > Sage (or any pocket calculator) can do '14+17' but I would be really > concerned about a generation of

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-27 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Paul Leopardi wrote: > > Earlier this year I applied for an ARC Discovery grant for a 4 year > 75% Fellowship ( http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dp/dp_default.htm ) to > study the relationship between numerical Clifford algebras, compatible > discretization and the solutio

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Leopardi
Earlier this year I applied for an ARC Discovery grant for a 4 year 75% Fellowship ( http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dp/dp_default.htm ) to study the relationship between numerical Clifford algebras, compatible discretization and the solution of PDEs, etc. in mathematical physics. Part of this project

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Aug-26 03:41:51 -0700, Harald Schilly wrote: > >On Aug 26, 4:19 am, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >> Any thoughts about using Sage in elementary school? Sage is an excellent tool for taking the drugery out of doing maths but elementary school is more about the fundamentals of arithmetic. Sage

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Robert >>> Bradshaw wrote: An interface to clawpack would go a long ways he

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Robert >> Bradshaw wrote: >>> >>> An interface to clawpack would go a long ways here. >> >> Is clawpack opensource? According to this: >> >> http:/

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Robert > Bradshaw wrote: >> >> An interface to clawpack would go a long ways here. > > Is clawpack opensource? According to this: > > http://www.amath.washington.edu/~claw/copyright.html > > it isn't. But I

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > An interface to clawpack would go a long ways here. Is clawpack opensource? According to this: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~claw/copyright.html it isn't. But I know that Chris Swierczewski wants to create a Sage package for it, so

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
An interface to clawpack would go a long ways here. On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:10 AM, ahmet alper parker wrote: > finite element capabilities like > http://www.pdesolutions.com/ > money? Don't know how would it cost but i am sure not too much (maybe > which could help cover my own thesis costs to so

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM, john_perry_usm wrote: >> >> Just yesterday I bumped up against factoring univariate polynomials in >> QQbar (*not* CC). Being able to factor in QQbar would have a broad >> impact (or maybe not, but at least on

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Just yesterday I bumped up against factoring univariate polynomials in > QQbar (*not* CC). Being able to factor in QQbar would have a broad > impact (or maybe not, but at least on one ticket I was studying), but > I don't know about feasibility. > >

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Just yesterday I bumped up against factoring univariate polynomials in > QQbar (*not* CC). Being able to factor in QQbar would have a broad > impact (or maybe not, but at least on one ticket I was studying), but > I don't know about feasib

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread john_perry_usm
Just yesterday I bumped up against factoring univariate polynomials in QQbar (*not* CC). Being able to factor in QQbar would have a broad impact (or maybe not, but at least on one ticket I was studying), but I don't know about feasibility. regards john perry On Aug 25, 1:56 pm, William Stein wr

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 26, 11:15 am, kstueve wrote: > 5) Sage promotional materials e.g. t-shirts, posters, wallpapers, > screen-savers etc. http://groups.google.se/group/sage-marketing currently empty, but i have made some posters and we can discuss and work on such things over there. if sage wants to expand

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 26, 4:19 am, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > Any thoughts about using Sage in elementary school? I think a great > project would be to connect the power of Sage with the ubiquity of the > OLPC. In Uruguay we are nearing 100% deployment of the XO in public > schools (grades 1 to 6), so it would b

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread kstueve
Some things I would love to see in Sage: 1) Real-time sound manipulation e.g. hearing a sound change as you manipulate a frequency distribution 2) Functionality similar to ODE architect e.g. drawing an animated spring system and analyzing its DEs and graphs 3) Design by contract and proofs of c

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > * Someone spending his/her time improving the reference manual + > > constructions etc (similar to the tutorial idea) > > Can you please elaborate on this? > > Whatever time I could spare, I had devoted it to improving the > reference manual in the following ways: > > * spell-check any and all

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-26 Thread ahmet alper parker
finite element capabilities like http://www.pdesolutions.com/ money? Don't know how would it cost but i am sure not too much (maybe which could help cover my own thesis costs to some extend)... AAP On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hello, > > Grant proposal season is upon

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Martin > Albrecht wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009, William Stein wrote: >>> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. What I >>> need is just a sentence or two (at most a >>> paragraph) describing the work ... and a ball

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:27:31AM +0100, Martin Albrecht wrote: > * Notebook scaling > * Notebook LDAP etc. integration ++! Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM, William Stein wrote: > Please feel free to suggest any and all ideas.    There are different > potential funding sources -- some most care about basic software > engineering, some about scientific research, and some about > undergraduate education applications. An

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Martin, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > * Someone spending his/her time improving the reference manual + constructions > etc (similar to the tutorial idea) Can you please elaborate on this? Whatever time I could spare, I had devoted it to improving the reference

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Martin Albrecht
> Please feel free to suggest any and all ideas.There are different > potential funding sources -- some most care about basic software > engineering, some about scientific research, and some about > undergraduate education applications. Well, a few project come to mind which are unlikely to b

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 August 2009, William Stein wrote: >> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund.  What I >> need is just a sentence or two (at most a >> paragraph) describing the work ... and a ballpark estimate of the cost."

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, William Stein wrote: > "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. What I > need is just a sentence or two (at most a > paragraph) describing the work ... and a ballpark estimate of the cost." * polynomial system solving with noise; cost: a three year p

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 at 11:56AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works. Imagine > somebody said to you: > > "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. What I > need is just a sentence or two (at most a paragraph) describing the >

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works. >> Imagine somebody said to you: >> >> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund.  What I

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Harald Schilly
Statistics, beginning with a class for holding data with descriptions (I think of something based on pytables and hdf) ... methods for subselection, transformation and assignments (at least what's possible in R with data.frames) ... and then more classes with data/object interactions that wrap or

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hello, > > Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works. > Imagine somebody said to you: > > "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund.  What I > need is just a sentence or two (at most a > paragraph) descri

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 25, 8:56 pm, William Stein wrote: > Grant proposal season is upon us... Implement a cross-browser web-application testing infrastructure based on webdriver http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/ for the notebook, focused on functionality, consistency and concurrency. For example, execute 10

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-25 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:56:01AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > Feel free to post in this thread any wishlist ideas along these lines > that you might have. They could make there way into a proposal that > might get funded, and Sage development would consequently benefit > greatly. Expandin