William,

Looks good. First, the one thing I'd say is missing is some sort of  
comparison in an arena where SAGE does well -- you may already be  
planning this in a demo. My thought is this: you give a fair and  
balanced view of SAGE's shortcomings, but you don't stop to brag  
about the things that SAGE excels at. I think it's perfectly  
reasonable to brag, at least a bit. ;) Other than that, just a few  
minor edits:

1) It's van Rossum, not van Rosum (slide 3)
2) Sage provides "serious computING power" (slide 8)
3) On the last slide, I would rephrase part of the third bullet in 3  
to something like "like Python (which receives funding from Google,  
as well as several other major companies)"

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On Aug 17, 2007, at 1:01 AM, William Stein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just wrote slides for a 20-minute talk on SAGE I'm giving  
> tomorrow morning.
> The target audience is vastly different from that of the last talk I
> gave (at CECM).
> Imagine an audience that could care less about cost, and just wants  
> the best
> possible tools for the job.   Any notions of cost, "open source  
> idealism", and
> even proof are irrelevant to the target audience of this talk.  Please
> let me know
> if you have any comments.
>
> -- 
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://www.williamstein.org
>
> >
> <talk.pdf>


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