On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:15 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 17, 7:57 pm, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. >> >> Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from >> our Notices letter. It needs more details relavant to a young math student, >> but I'll keep working on it. >> >> I plan on eventually posting it somewhere with >> "The Sage group" as author, as long as there are no objections, >> so anyone teaching a course can grab it, tweek it to their needs, >> and hand it out to their students as motivation. >> >> > There are some things that people could criticize >> > given your stated goals for your target audience, but I'm not going to >> > present such criticism. >> > > David, > > Since this is similar to your talk at the panel in DC, my comments > would be similar, and I definitely will be happy to present such > criticism :) But not much right now, since you already heard much of
Thank you. > what I would have to say in terms of how to shape it for such an > audience. > > This is a good start and if you email me off-list in mid-March with > the source I might even help the "Sage group" tweak this. Something a Will do. Thanks again Karl. > little less triumphalistic, a lot less technical, and with more > examples will be very helpful in the overall goals of Sage with the > teachers. I think the students are unlikely to respond to any such > arguments as a rule, because the ones who would do so already will > know about the open source concept, I suspect. > > I especially like the part about so many academic projects going > commercial, because I find it hard to believe that there aren't some > people who contributed to some in their spare time who then were not > necessarily compensated for that time with full royalties (maybe just > a one-time payout, if that) once the projects went commercial. I > think that people making software decisions in the HS/early college > 'market' will resonate with that, even if their students don't. > > - kcrisman > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. 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-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
