William wrote: > This is relevant to > sage-devel, because perhaps one day > we'll get some publicity :-) [see, e.g, the top article on slashdot > right now... http://slashdot.org/]
I can't help but think that "A SageMath Developer writes" would serve better as a marketing tool than "A Sage Developer writes". The word "Sage" by itself is so abstract that it could refer to anything and most people are not going to give Sage a second thought when they read it in a short blurb like this. If, say, 10,000 people read that blurb on Slashdot, maybe only an handful would take the time to find out what a Sage developer was, and perhaps only a few of them would be interested in math. The name SageMath, however, instantly lets people know that SageMath is related to math and, if they are interested in math, they are much more likely to take an interest in SageMath. Out of 10,000 Slashdot viewers, certainly dozens, and perhaps even hundreds, of math-oriented people would likely visit the SageMath project to see what it was all about. So Sage did receive some hard-won publicity on Slashdot, but unfortunately I think it was in the form of a missed marketing opportunity. I know this naming topic has been discussed before and then tabled, but I think we should reopen the discussion :-) Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
