Axiom Developers; Recently there have appeared some new Axiom users who seem to prefer to interact via the Axiom Portal rather than by email or through the Wiki. Changes and additions to the content on the Axiom Portal are not automatically forwarded to the axiom-developer list, however registered users of the Portal can subscribe to receive notifactions similar to those received when the content of the Axiom Wiki is changed.
I have forwarded the following posting here to the axiom-developer list just as a reminder of the existence of the Axiom Portal side of MathAction and because I think some people here might find it interesting. Regards, Bill Page. -----Original Message----- From: unknown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 6, 2005 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FrontPage] More developers on Axiom Changes http://portal.axiom-developer.org/wiki/FrontPage/diff -- I think one of the most important thing that is required for success of axiom is to induce more developers on axiom. Axiom has been under development for quite a long time and has grown into a very complex beast so it is rather hard to for a new developer to "dive-in" to the project right away; one needs to have good background of what is its philosophy, how various parts work so forth. Those who are on this project must be sort of die-hard fans of it :)Hence to attract more developers, I feel, the strategy should be to expand its user-base. If a person is happily using axiom he would at some point of time would add some funtionality to it which could be integrated. In this light, IMHO, the target audience should not just be those who would be doing research but all kinds of people who would ever be using a CAS. People generally tend to remain loyal with their first system: so the idea should be a kind of "Catch them young" philosophy. One recent news is that the MuPad is under trouble for various political reasons. I feel sorry about it but there is something that axiom can from this situation to its advantage: Axiom is the only system I that is close to MuPad. Existing MuPad users can be braught to the axiom community. One more suggestion. There have been a lot of people who have involved in making axiom. A kind of interview of them would benefitial to any new developer or user discussing their viewpoint on the system and would motivate the developers. (I followed the link from the thread above and found http://people.kde.org doing the same. -- forwarded from http://portal.axiom-developer.org/wiki/[EMAIL PROTECTED] al.axiom-developer.org _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
