Re: [sage-combinat-devel] bug in to_tableau method of CrystalOfTableaux

2010-03-21 Thread Anne Schilling
Hi Florent and Nicolas, Thank you for your hints on how to debug this. Apparently, the input for TensorProdcutOfCrystals is a list without the brackets (see for example line 346 in /combinat/crystals/tensor_product.py, where the module_generators are created). Hence the correct test would be

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] bug in to_tableau method of CrystalOfTableaux

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Anne Schilling wrote: Apparently, the input for TensorProdcutOfCrystals is a list without the brackets (see for example line 346 in /combinat/crystals/tensor_product.py, where the module_generators are created). Hence the correct test would be

[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Sage-Combinat/Chevie meeting on Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras in Orsay in June

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Sage-Combinat and Chevie developers, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:17:34PM +0100, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: There seems to be a consensus emerging on: http://doodle.com/ktma7rmvx4f3psbr for the Sage-Combinat/Chevie workshop to occur in the week from Monday June 14th to

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.4 released

2010-03-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Mar 19, 2010, at 23:52 , Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, Sage 4.3.4 was released on March 19, 2010. It is available at http://www.sagemath.org/download.html * About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org) Built two ways: as an upgrade to rc0 and from scratch. Both builds completed with

[sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 20, 10:11 pm, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Alasdair McAndrew amc...@gmail.com wrote: def intr(z):     C=z.polynomial().coeffs()     fc=parent(z).characteristic()     tmp=0     for i in range(len(C),0,-1):        

Re: [sage-devel] Category for IntegerModRing(n)

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:35:01PM +0100, Florent hivert wrote: Hi There, In order to let Rob use IntegerModRing(n) as example of finite additive group for his cool Cayley graph feature (#7555), I just wrote a patch (#8562) letting IntegerModRing(n) use the category framework.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Category for IntegerModRing(n)

2010-03-21 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Rob Beezer goo...@beezer.cotse.net wrote: (2) IntegerModRing(n) is always in CommutativeRings() IMO this is the one that makes sense, by the same reasons why: sage: parent(2/1) Rational Field IOW, IntegerModRing should be a map from ZZ to CommutativeRings()

Re: [sage-devel] Category for IntegerModRing(n)

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:50:43PM +, John Cremona wrote: There are surely many other similar situations, for example when constructing a commutative ring it might be expensive to determine whether or not it is an Integral Domain. Yup. I would always use GF(p) rather than IntegerMod(p)

[sage-devel] sage-algebra and other thematic lists

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:50:43PM +, John Cremona wrote: PS This would be a suitable discussion for the newly-formed sage-algebra list! Oops, right! Speaking of that: the primary purpose of sage-algebra is to allow people to follow algebra related discussions without having to follow all

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Category for IntegerModRing(n)

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:52:54AM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: On Mar 20, 8:07 am, Nicolas M. Thiery nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr wrote: Cayley graph feature (#7555) Cayley TABLES (and other operation tables). Cayley GRAPHS are due to Moretti/Miller/Thiery. ;-) Oops :-) I can testify to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4 released

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi William, On Fedora 12 x86_64 I had build failures with gd and atlas. The gd issue could be resolved by putting /usr/include/iconv.h and /usr/bin/iconv aside. I can confirm that the same issues occur on openSuSE 11.1 (64), 11.0 (32), gentoo 1.12.9 (64), and mandriva 1010 (64),

[sage-devel] FriCAS in Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Does somebody know whether (and how) I can convince Sage to work with an existing FriCAS (compiled with sbcl) instead of compiling+installing the fricas.spkg? Ralf -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] no GSoC for Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi Minh, On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:12:56 +1100 Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Burcin Erocal bur...@erocal.org wrote: SNIP - replace the GSoC 2010 link on the front page of the web site with a Help Wanted or Get Involved! link. The development

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] FriCAS in Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Ralf, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: Does somebody know whether (and how) I can convince Sage to work with an existing FriCAS (compiled with sbcl) instead of compiling+installing the fricas.spkg? You might know this already: Say your system has a

[sage-devel] Re: no GSoC for Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Pablo Angulo
What I gather from your proposals above is that we need to have some kind of lists of easy tickets for someone to nibble on (chew lightly for a few hours). The idea of such an easy list is to anticipate someone coming along and say, I'm new to Sage. I would like to help out with its

[sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: SNIP I don't know what to do and I've no more time to investigate (I already spend half of my week-end on it together with the rebase of sage-combinat queue). Also I must confess I'm far from being

[sage-devel] Re: FriCAS in Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Adam Webb
On Mar 21, 11:58 am, Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de wrote: Does somebody know whether (and how) I can convince Sage to work with an existing FriCAS (compiled with sbcl) instead of compiling+installing the fricas.spkg? Ralf Hi, Since the interface to fricas is pexpect I would not have

[sage-devel] Creation of Posets

2010-03-21 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody !!! I am writing a pretty simple code, which generates several subsets of [n]. I would like to take from this list of subsets the list of maximal elements, which I feel should be the job of the Poset class, though it looks like it only accepts DiGraph as an input... Well, do you

Re: [sage-devel] no GSoC for Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Burcin, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Burcin Erocal bur...@erocal.org wrote: SNIP There are lot's of occasions when I look at a bug filed under the symbolics component and say that it would be easy to fix, but cannot justify taking the time to fix it then myself. When I actually find

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: SNIP I don't know what to do and I've no more time to investigate (I already spend half of my week-end on it together with the rebase of sage-combinat queue). Also I must confess

Re: [sage-devel] no GSoC for Sage

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, In order to have a sustainable contributor base, I think Sage needs to have some kind of mentoring program along the lines of the Ubuntu mentoring program [1]. People on the Sage mailing lists do answer questions and try to help each other out. But we're all humans. Sometimes

[sage-devel] test fails on heegner.py in 4.3.4

2010-03-21 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi Installed Sage 4.3.4 on 643bit Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty from source, with optional packages: 0 r...@muizenberg:/usr/local/src/sage-4.3.4/spkg#ls optional/ huge huge: README.txt stein-watkins-ecdb.spkg stein-watkins-ecdb.spkg.md5 optional/: biopython-1.53.p0.spkg

Re: [sage-devel] Creation of Posets

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi Nathann, I am writing a pretty simple code, which generates several subsets of [n]. I would like to take from this list of subsets the list of maximal elements, which I feel should be the job of the Poset class, though it looks like it only accepts DiGraph as an input... Well, do

Re: [sage-devel] Creation of Posets

2010-03-21 Thread Nathann Cohen
I think 2. is exactly what you want. Clearly ! :-) I only looked at Poset? before asking my question.. And the reference manual displays the good version of the documentation : http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/combinat/posets/posets.html Thank youuu !! :-) Nathann -- To post

Re: [sage-devel] test fails on heegner.py in 4.3.4

2010-03-21 Thread John Cremona
Jan, This happens if (and only if?) you have the optional database installed, since then calls to E.gens() return the database generators rather than computing them. I just report this to Robert Miller since heegner.py is the only file with this behaviour now (there used to be a lot more). So

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, snip From my experience with machines on Skynet, building and doctesting Sage on some of the Linux machines could actually crash the machine. Most times for me, such a crash would result in bringing a machine down, or even bringing down the primary network node

[sage-devel] Re: Exterior algebras.

2010-03-21 Thread bump
(suggestions, or better patches, to improve that example are welcome) Earlier I posted code to construct exterior algebras in Sage here: http://sporadic.stanford.edu/bump/exterior.sage This uses CombinatorialAlgebras. Currently the preferred method of constructing a ring is to implement it as

[sage-devel] Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
Hi all, I've been away for some time, since I had to switch to this other ugly OS some time ago, but recently a student asked me some help about Elliptic Curves, and since all I know about that was that sage supports it, I pointed to it. Anyway, that sparked some interest again in sage, so I

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread William Stein
2010/3/21 Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net: Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, snip From my experience with machines on Skynet, building and doctesting Sage on some of the Linux machines could actually crash the machine. Most times for me, such a crash would result in bringing a

[sage-devel] Don't know how to debug doc of Poset...

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, Since sage-4.3.3 asking for Poset? doesn't print the docstring. I've no idea where to start to debug this issue. Any suggestion ? Cheers, Florent -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread William Stein
Hello, After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following announcement: - Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his code contributions, release

Re: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his code contributions, release management, support for new users and outstanding work on documentation. [...] To bad he went to sleep 1 hour ago ! And Bravo

Res: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Ronan Paixão
Congratulations! Ronan De: William Stein wst...@gmail.com Para: sage-devel sage-devel@googlegroups.com; Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com Enviadas: Domingo, 21 de Março de 2010 15:14:55 Assunto: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced! Hello,

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread William Stein
On Sunday, March 21, 2010, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his code contributions, release management, support for new users and outstanding

Re: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread David Joyner
Congratulations Minh! On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:14 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following announcement: - Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort.

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Nathann Cohen
I hesitate between Great and Amazing Impressive work at the least :-) Nathann -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Jaap Spies
Florent Hivert wrote: Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his code contributions, release management, support for new users and outstanding work on documentation. [...] To bad he went to sleep 1

[sage-devel] Re: Don't know how to debug doc of Poset...

2010-03-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 21, 11:03 am, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote:       Hi there,    Since sage-4.3.3 asking for Poset? doesn't print the docstring. I've no idea where to start to debug this issue. Any suggestion ? The problem is with the sphinxify function; for some reason it doesn't

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mar 21, 7:14 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. Congratulations, and yes, that's so true !! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Rob Beezer
(shouting) CONGRATULATIONS, MINH! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:15:48PM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: (shouting) CONGRATULATIONS, MINH! (joining as a chorus) CONGRATULATIONS, MINH! Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry Isil nthi...@users.sf.net http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- To post to this group, send an

[sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 21, 10:03 am, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: In all cases it should return a Sage Integer not a Python int. All of the functions intr, intr1, and int4 return a Sage integer, not a Python int. Also, for small fields, log_to_int operates the same way, sage:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Martin Albrecht
However, for large fields, say GF(7^100), log_to_int is not implemented. Perhaps, either that name can be used instead of integer_representation, or something similar, say poly_to_int. log_to_int is only available for Givaro fields because it represents finite field elements as their

[sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 21, 5:01 pm, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: sage: K.fetch_int(10) a^2 + 1 It's also working only for small fields. Meanwhile, I found out that int4 returns python int in some cases. In particular, sage: type(int4(F.one())) type 'int' Also, neither int4, nor

[sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 21, 5:34 pm, Alec Mihailovs alec.mihail...@gmail.com wrote: So both of them should be corrected by dealing with 0 separately and converting python int to Sage integers in int4. Here are the corrected versions of int4 and poly_repr, sage: def int4(z): :

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi There, Thanks to David, the issues #8567 Change iconv so it builds on Cygwin and Solaris only seems to have a fix, but before giving positive review, I think it should be tested on Cygwin... I think I owe everyone an explanation why the Sage 4.3.4 release is broken for Fedora and

Re: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread David Kirkby
On 21 March 2010 18:14, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following announcement: - Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. He is awarded the 2010 Spies

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread mhampton
Congratulations Minh! I really appreciate the massive amount of time you put in on Sage. -Marshall Hampton On Mar 21, 1:14 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following announcement:

[sage-devel] (Combinatorial)FreeModule and coercion

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Robert all, Jean-Yves Thibon reported the following but with our free modules: sage: K = QQ['x'] sage: V = CombinatorialFreeModule(K, [1,2,3]) sage: v = V.an_element() sage: K(2/3) * v 4/3*B[1] + 4/3*B[2] + 2*B[3] sage: (2/3) * v

Re: [sage-devel] Re: hmm.[tab] = hidden markov models

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39:17PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I was wrong.It is stupid to spend a few days writing interface code to an existing library, when one can completely implement the algorithms in that library better from scratch in a few days. This sounds right in the case at

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-Combinat/Chevie meeting on Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras in Orsay in June

2010-03-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Sage-Combinat and Chevie developers, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:17:34PM +0100, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: There seems to be a consensus emerging on: http://doodle.com/ktma7rmvx4f3psbr for the Sage-Combinat/Chevie workshop to occur in the week from Monday June 14th to

[sage-devel] Re: Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Jaap Spies
Harald Schilly wrote: On Mar 21, 7:14 pm, William Steinwst...@gmail.com wrote: Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. Congratulations, and yes, that's so true !! H Thanks for updating: http://www.sagemath.org/development-prize.html Jaap -- To post to this

[sage-devel] Re: method int_repr only works for small finite fields

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
By the way, I looked at the help page for digits, sage: base=7 sage: x=12345654321234565432123456543212345654321234565432123456 sage: x.digits? and it is said there (at the end) that Using ``sum()`` and ``enumerate()`` to do the same thing is slightly faster in many cases (and

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Hansen
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: If anyone have access to this machine (or any Cygwin), can you test that sage-4.3.4 with iconv-1.31.1.spkg replaced by     http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/iconv/iconv-1.13.1.p0.spkg correctly builds

Re: [sage-devel] why Sage 4.3.4 is broken on Fedora and openSUSE

2010-03-21 Thread David Kirkby
On 22 March 2010 00:06, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote: If anyone have access to this machine (or any Cygwin), can you test that sage-4.3.4 with iconv-1.31.1.spkg replaced by    

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 21, 11:38 am, Ronan Paixão ronanpai...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Also, since I'm using that ugly OS, For me, Windows 7 is beautiful! Unfortunately, I have to use that ugly Linux most of the time when I want to use Sage. Also, the terminal which is opened when sage is autostarted, doesn't say

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Jaap Spies
Alec Mihailovs wrote: On Mar 21, 11:38 am, Ronan Paixãoronanpai...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Also, since I'm using that ugly OS, For me, Windows 7 is beautiful! You are joking! Unfortunately, I have to use that ugly Linux most of the time when I want to use Sage. You are joking once more.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.4.rc0 released

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 20, 9:17 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- I worked on this today, but it simply took too long for Sage to build.  I will continue working on this next Monday (just over a week from now), when I get back to Canada, and then finally have a 4.3.4 Virtualbox, unless of

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
Jaap, But wait! A native Windows Sage is almost there. That would be excellent! I'm not sure that cygwin would work on my 64- bit system (never tried it though.) Alec -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.4 released

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Sage 4.3.4 was released on March 19, 2010. It is available at           http://www.sagemath.org/download.html I can't compile it on my linode.com server with g++ 4.3.3: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Jaap Spies
Alec Mihailovs wrote: Jaap, But wait! A native Windows Sage is almost there. That would be excellent! I'm not sure that cygwin would work on my 64- bit system (never tried it though.) On my ugly 64 bit system I can run 32 bit software without a problem :) Jaap Alec -- To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
Jaap, On my ugly 64 bit system I can run 32 bit software without a problem :) Me too. But cygwin is a different story. A couple of years (or more?) ago, when I switched from 32-bit Windows to 64-bit (XP at that time), cygwin didn't work on 64-bit Windows. I used cygwin extensively for many

[sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Alec Mihailovs
On Mar 21, 9:28 pm, Alec Mihailovs alec.mihail...@gmail.com wrote: Is it working in 64-bit Windows 7 now? I would be happy to install it again. Wow! Just installed the basic cygwin and it is working! I'll try to build Sage there. Alec -- To post to this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Bug advertisement

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Hansen
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Alec Mihailovs alec.mihail...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! Just installed the basic cygwin and it is working! I'll try to build Sage there. There are still some major issues for Sage on Cygwin, but it's getting close. I'm going to try get lots of the fixes in mainline

Re: [sage-devel] Annual Spies Prize Winner Announced!

2010-03-21 Thread Nick Alexander
For his consistently conscientious commitment to Sage development, Minh Nguyen is the recipient of the 2010 Spies Development Prize. This award carries a prize of $500 from the Sage Foundation (thanks to Jaap Spies). Congratulations, Minh! This prize was earned, not won. Nick -- To post to