Dear SAGE developers, i hope i am not bothering you to much with my mail. I am a math teacher in "Classe Préparatoire" in Lyon (France) so my students are school graduates and they prepare contests to enter famous "Grandes Écoles" (Engineers schools).
The french educational administration has decided, many years ago, to promote the usage of computers for scientific purposes. They then have chosen two software : Maple and Matlab. I have the project to propose to "those who decide" to replace Maple (and maybe Matlab too) by Python based software. Of course, SAGE comes first in my mind. I know it is not a simple task because most teachers are now used to Maple and the new GUI of Maple is more intuitive. But it's not open source and it costs a lot... (so students download cracked versions) If i want to have a chance to convince these leaders, i must be able to prove that within a one year project, it is possible to adapt SAGE interface (mostly propose a french environment, and maybe french names to procedures and parameters) and provide a library of sample code (to prove that it fit the needs of math course in "Classes Préparatoire" and ease the adoption of SAGE by other teachers...) To achieve such a goal, i would work with a freelance consultant based in Lyon. Any code produced to adapt SAGE would be GPL licenced and fully open-source, without any delay in publication. I would like to have your opinion about that project and any advice or warning... I apologize for my poor English and for a rather cumbersome presentation. I hope to read from you soon. Best regards, Philippe Saadé --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
