Again, in the big wave of emails, this one also got misdirected: Hi everyone,
I am looking for people who want to help me, in one way or another, bring hundreds of new first time contributors to sage. If I do not find enough partners, I will look for other more suitable python-based projects. The idea would be quite simple: teach python programming around some mathematics (such as combinatorics) and simultaneously produce code that would be useful for research and worth including in sage. Two catches: students are given individual problems to work on, and the course is taught on Coursera. Motivation for the students would come in various ways: internships, for instance. Quality of the code would be ensured by peer-testing the programs. If you do not know what Coursera or MOOCs are, you are welcome to take my upcoming course https://class.coursera.org/massiveteaching-001 If you are interested to play with a MOOC platform yourself, you might want first to watch the videostream of the 2pm-3pm slot of this conference I am co-organising on Tuesday: tinyurl.com/openedx-zurich as it will help you assess the technical challenges. I am looking at a start date for the course of around October-November, and to bring the discussion off the mailing list (to private) so as to keep an element of surprise for the students. Let me know! Paul Paul-Olivier Dehaye SNF Professor of Mathematics University of Zurich skype: lokami_lokami (preferred) phone: +41 76 407 57 96 chat: pauloliv...@gmail.com twitter: podehaye freenode irc: pdehaye -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
