> Estimate of number of Sage users by year: > > Feb 2005: 3 > Feb 2006: 100 > Feb 2007: 500 > Feb 2008: 5,000 > Feb 2009: 10,000 (Goal) > Feb 2009: 25,000 (Goal) > Feb 2010: 100,000 (Goal) > Feb 2011: 1,000,000 (Goal)
Hi, I wonder what the status of this goals is. Is it something we all should strive for? I guess at the end of the day we all have our own agendas because Sage is a volunteer driven project but still I am unsure what these goals mean. To be more specific, I am not sure that I'd aim for 10^6 Sage users. As William pointed out already this would mean a lot of maintenance and infrastructure work. Also, I doubt that there are 10^6 mathematicians out there in need of a mathematics software for their research so I figure by seriously(!) aiming for way more users than research mathematicians Sage's slogan would need to drop the "viable alternative MAGMA". You don't get 10^6 users with a sophisticated modell of p-Adics but you might get them with flashy graphics. Sure we can do both but this is not represented in these goal figures. Or in other words: I am willing to sacrifice this massive growth for "critical peer acclaim". If we'd really aim for maximum "marketshare" we might miss the point where we could have created a viable open-source alternative to Magma a major contribution to the mathematical sciences. In my book research papers citing Sage are a much better benchmark. To avoid misunderstandings: I am not against 10^6 users, it is just not my goal. Thoughts? From the ivory tower ;-) 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
