> 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.
Unless you are us, and then it doesn't. The title was “Using Sage in the Calculus Sequence.” Again, though it's frustrating, we can understand that it's hard for a committee to decide where the line needs to be drawn. We tried to be as explicit as we could about calculus. > 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. Oh, for sure. I think that five years from now, as Geogebra, WebWork, R, Sage, etc. mature, there will be plenty of interest for a session. Minicourses seem to come up earlier, as people who have worked with a tool try to share their expertise with others who don't have time or ability to learn it on their own. > 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). I am doing just such a thing at the Northeastern Section Meeting in about a month, for the Section NExT group. We had the "Clickable Calculus" guy from Maple in about a year ago (and he did a good job), so it made sense. You are definitely right about section meetings - I've helped organize one, and you always want a variety of things to draw participants, even at a "theme" meeting. I wouldn't be so sure that travel would be covered by the meeting unless it's a big name - William I can see, Stan Wagon and George Andrews I can see, not so sure about some of the rest of us. But in the past there has been talk about having a roster of Sage speakers that would be in some obvious place on the website, and perhaps it's time to revisit that as a resource. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
