At the meetings in San Diego a few years ago I had a discussion with some of the folks who are part of the program committee apparatus and approved topics for MAA sessions, panels, etc. and I was asking about proposing a panel or session on open textbooks. I got the distinct impression that you would have to avoid the appearance of promoting a "product" (even if it was free). So a talk like "How to select an open textbook" might be legit, but a talk like "Bill Smith's open textbook on Diffeomorphisms of Freely Generated Fiber Bundles" might be considered too much of a promotion. Anyway, the substance of the conversation was discouraging enough that I dropped the idea right there.
<rant>I think you can find lots of counterexamples to this, some officially sanctioned, and you might even be able to argue that every talk has a strong element of self-promotion.</rant> Based on this, I would suspect a proposal that describes some new novel way of doing something, and Sage is incidentally the vehicle for that something novel, possibly the only vehicle, would fair better than a proposal that aims to simply teach folks how to use Sage. Just off the top of my head, say: "How to extend mathematical software through code contributions" - (not that this would be a great minicourse that would draw a big audience, though I'd enjoy it). And the description begins, "We will use the software system Sage to show how any mathematician can add, modify, etc, etc." Something like this might fare better? I can, and will, consult a colleague who might be able to shed more light on this and report back. Rob On Oct 14, 10:18 am, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, I don't think there will be any. This is definitely by choice of > > the AMS though, since we put substantial effort and thought into an > > AMS minicourse proposal, but it was rejected. > > Jason G. says, "it might be nice to get an idea of what they did/ > didn't do" ... since we might want to submit a proposal for an MAA > minicourse eventually. Not the same thing, but still... any ideas, on > or off list? > > Incidentally, for the info of those who read this list, several of us > submitted a proposal for a PREP workshop, but it was not approved. So > that's too bad, as well. > > - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
