On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 3, 3:22 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > It sounds quite ominous. >> >> > I thought the exact same thing. Very unimpressed. >> >> Though keep in mind it's probably a first draft. > > > For veteran contributors the opaque (but I'm sure it will improve) > policy of access to the steering committee might sound ominous. May I > draw your attention to the fact that for others, esp. first time or > potential contributors, similar issues apply. > Recently there was the following exchange about an offered binary > build for SUSE > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/a77bdb25b30c36aa > > Is it an idea that if a policy for the "top-down" (i.e steering > committee) is formulated, there should also be a formulated policy for > the "bottom up", i.e how to integrate new people in the process?
Nearly everything in Sage is bottom-up, top-down is only for when that doesn't work and we need to move on. > Beside: > Was it already mentioned that the stackoverflow sage-advertisment > (which was the original starter for this thread) has already reached > the critical 6 upvotes to be featured on the main pages? > http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74983/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2011/77019#77019 > It currently has 8 up-votes and already "overtook" some other projects > which launched their adds earlier. > Cheers for the the people who made this possible Niles, Eviatar, Ivan > Andrus and H.Shilly :-) Cool. > Maybe it is also possible to continue to improve the "landing page" > http://wiki.sagemath.org/StackOverflowLanding > Is it an idea to mention the pending Windows port? I wouldn't until it's actively ongoing (unless it's clearly marked as a wishlist item). > There were some comments about to write proposals (to get grants) for > development, but I see H. Schilly has open a thread about Google SOC > 2011 with no response so far. For whatever reason, Sage has had a hard time getting accepted as a GSoC project, but it's probably worth looking into more when (based on past performance) the Python project gets funded. That being said, if anyone wants to go for it, please do! - Robert -- 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
