On 9 September 2017 at 10:04, David Roe <roed.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'd like to organize some online Sage Days, where people gather on > zulip.sagemath.org and work on Sage together. The two things to be > decided are >
Sounds good. 1. What topics should we focus on? > 2. What days/times work for the most people? > Some of these may transition into in-person working groups (the IMA has > funding for small groups to meet there over this coming year to work on > projects) > I look at a large number of online webinars from companies like Rohde and Schwarz, Keysight etc. They always seem to arrange them afternoon in the USA, so they are at a reasonable time in the day for Europe too. > > I'll send out a survey for the scheduling part, but I wanted to solicit > suggestions for topics first. Some ideas: > > > If you'd like me to include other topics in the survey, chime in! > David > * Some for absolute beginners - it makes sense to make that the first of these. * Some for engineers, or others who don't have maths degrees. * Some for developers. I used to do a lot of work for Sage - in fact I was at one point in the top 10% of some list William produced. But now the switch from mercurial to git, and I'm out of it. There are other reasons in my case - I worked mainly on the port to Solaris, completed that, but Solaris is no longer tested or working. * A DECENT interface to Mathematica, with a proper API, not using pexpect, which seems to be rather a poor alternative, which is always breaking. * NOT OpenSSL. Dave -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
