Reporting back, as promised. Most of the above is generally correct, including kcrisman's reply to my post, and William's success rate on grants he never applied for.
A couple of new things to add. You can propose an individual talk on something very narrow, like "Using Sage to..." and it will probably get approved. But for a panel/session/minicourse then criteria like interest level, are there enough speakers, availability of the "platform", etc begin to come into play. So I'd say the more Sage is being deployed and used, the better we'd do on this. A Windows port wouldn't hurt, I guess. Many Section Meetings have minicourses as part of their program. William did a nice one at the Pacific Northwest Section meeting last April. It was well attended (twenty?), in direct competition with a Mathematica session by Stan Wagon (and George Andrews talking about partitions). Speaking from experience, an organizer for one of these local MAA meetings would probably jump on any offer to present such a minicourse. These would be a valuable experience and trial run for a presenter, and establish a track record of interest for a proposal at the national level, and likely the presenter's travel might be covered by the meeting, so geography and money doesn't have to be a constraint (just time). Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
