[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-05-14 Thread Georg Muntingh
On the notion of publicity, the following presentation might help: http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap. It makes a lot of very smart points on how one might want to present SAGE for maximal effect. It takes about ten minutes of your time. Georg Muntingh. On Apr 13, 9:05 am, "Will

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread Soroosh Yazdani
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:08:43AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > This is great news! Many thanks for the volunteering of help. > Robert Bradshaw has also expressed interest in helping on the MacOSX > packaging. So that makes two volunteers so far. Is anybody interested > in helping with the L

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread William Stein
On 4/13/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not a paradox. The point is that SAGE is > > very much *not* only a volunteer committee. I hire four undergrads > > at 19/week to work on SAGE -- they are not volunteers at all -- SAGE > > is their job, and have hired a grad student

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread Nick Alexander
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An anoymous person wrote: >> > SAGE is such a paradox. How are these things going to get done by a >> > volunteer community? Especially the boring things. I can't figure it >> > out. But then I can't figure out how any project like this gets off >> >

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread William Stein
On 4/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to get started with 2.4.2, but that got sidelined by gdmodule > not linking properly. I will look into that next. If nobody else wants > to do it I will give packaging SAGE with cygwin a shot. I can also > help out with the app bundles on

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread mabshoff
Hello, > > - MS Windows: We need a .msi installer that installs cygwin and > SAGE together to a uers's directory. Gary Zablackis used to make one > of this, but he is no longer contributing to SAGE, unfortunately. I just did a little googling and I could not find anything specific about t

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread William Stein
An anoymous person wrote: > > SAGE is such a paradox. How are these things going to get done by a > > volunteer community? Especially the boring things. I can't figure it > > out. But then I can't figure out how any project like this gets off > > the ground at all. It's not a paradox. The point

[sage-devel] Re: some sage development notes

2007-04-13 Thread William Stein
On 4/13/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like a very good roadmap (for widespread use). I've got some > comments and questions on distributions. > On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:05 AM, William Stein wrote: > > - OS X: We need an .app bundle for SAGE, i.e., a way to create a > > .