I think this looks really excellent! Possibly there is a typo on page 27. Did you mean "installation guide" where you said "programming guide"?
On Nov 25, 2007 10:14 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Sage is among the finalists of this year's Les Trophees du Libre competition > in Paris, France. > > http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/+Finalists-projects?lang=en > > I am going to represent Sage at the finals (each project has to give a 30 > minute presentation) and thus prepared some slides available at: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/malb/20071129%20-%20SAGE%20-%20Paris/ > > cetril.pdf is the presentation, SAGE_Demo.sws the demo worksheet, and > SAGE_Demo.pdf the PDF version of that demo. The target audience is a group of > people who want to promote open-source but probably are not into mathematics > at all. So presenting that we have a very sophisticated model for p-adic > arithmetic and comparing Sage with Magma might not do the trick. (but Sage is > in the 'scientific software' section, so it is okay to talk a little about > mathematics ;-)) > > The rules for the competition also indicate what the judges are going to be > looking for: > > """ > All the software will be tested and evaluated according to the criteria set > out below: > - Innovation (coefficient of 3) > - Functionality (coefficient of 3) > - Quality/stability (coefficient of 3) > - Durability (coefficient of 3) > - Utility (coefficient of 4) > - Documentation (coefficient of 3) > - Ease of installation (coefficient of 1) > - General renown (coefficient of -15) > """ > > I believe I've addressed these points implicitly (and I prefer to address them > implicitly) but I'd appreciate feedback on the talk and demo. Also, what else > could go into a demo for non-mathematicians? Is your name missing in the list > of contributes (I generated that from the hg logs)? > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb > _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
