On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune <bjarke.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In that case, could you explain what you did intend, since evidently I >> completely misunderstood you. Are you proposing creating wiki >> pages, or a survey paper, or a directory of experts or? >> > Benefiting from experience is good. From using the search, the topic > of how to do that more has not been discussed here outside of flame > wars. The intention of this topic is to do that. The intention is not > to suggest that Sage is deficient for not benefiting from experience, > the intention is to suggest that having an explicit community attitude > to the topic is a good thing. My specific suggestion was to make sure > to ask people who might know for their thoughts. This is of course not > some great realization of mine, and if it is mostly done where it > makes sense, then that idea is uninteresting. > > How does Sage benefit from other people's experience now?
* We've had nearly 20 Sage Days workshops in just over 3 year. * We built Sage on top of nearly 100 open source packages, instead of starting from scratch. * Many Sage developers are graduate students or professional mathematicians -- we're a bunch of professionals who know how to read research papers. Also, in some research areas we know the right people to ask in order to get things done. * Everybody brings their own personal experience to Sage development. * We have a mailing list with nearly 1500 subscribers, and many people read it and make comments on topics they know. * We benchmark Sage against other systems. * We use Python/Cython instead of inventing our own language, thus benefiting from the experience of the large group of Python developers and users. * We use Google and other search engines to search for solutions to problems. * We are bold enough to think for ourselves and never ever, ever consider the official word of some "expert" above our own common sense. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
