Dear Gentlemen,
I noticed that the MOODLE educational system is now widely available as a free
option at a large proportion of the most popular free/low cost web hosting
sites. I myself verified that it took only a few minutes to set up a fully
functioning MOODLE server at zero cost to me. This feature will work wonders
for popularizing MOODLE far and wide. I wonder why something like this cannot
be set up for SAGE Math? If SAGE were readily available on these hosting
platforms as an option (probably because of the amount of resources needed for
SAGE, it would be an option on a low cost rather than the bottom end
completely free web hosting choice), I think it would do much to encourage the
wide spread adoption of SAGE Math. I am also curious how dificult it would be
to use a low cost web hosting site to set up a SAGE server on my own? These
sites typically offer Linux/BSD Unix functionality. If I buy the space, will
they allow me to upload SAGE and compile and
install it into a directory on the file system assigned to me? If so, how
would I set it up so that everybody could access the SAGE notebook server on
the site? I have given up trying to make SAGE on my personal computer
accessible from the Internet. I was told to use a "bridged" system for VMWare,
but the server simply gives up and refuses to function if I put it up under
anything except NAT. I would much prefer to set it up on a low cost webhosting
site anyway so it could be available at any time to my students, and we could
use it to share worksheets with each other. I think as SAGE becomes more
popular in education, having everybody use the www.sagemath.org server will
lead to chaos. Those teachers who have access to sympathetic IT directors might
be able to set it up on a school district system, but it would be really nice
if educators could set it up on their own and have a URL to a SAGE web server
that was entirely their own. Having it as an
optional package at one or more of these low cost web hosting sites would be
a wonderful opportunity for educators without access to institutional IT
resources. Has anybody tried this? I would very much like some input. Could
anybody with the necessary technical knowledge approach these sites and talk to
their directors about offering a SAGE Math web server package as an option for
their customers? I am thinking about places like Freehostia, 110MB or GoDaddy.
What do you guys think?
Sincerely,
Jerry
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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-support
URLs: http://www.sagemath.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
