On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> if anyone would like to create a nice webpage for sympy.org, it'd be
> awesome. We need it, since for example now:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/
>
> is down at the moment and we can do absolutely nothing about it. So
> there should be at least some basic info about sympy, link to docs,
> etc. Maybe we could make our front page using sphinx as well, just
> like here:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
>
I think a sphinx front page would look much nicer.  Google Code pages  
are not very easy to navigate.

> Also, unrelated note, I already got about two requests from some
> students from Cuba, that google is apparently blocking sympy downloads
> for them, probably because of the US embargo [1]. Could someone
> clarify if it's illegal for us to provide downloads and do not block
> Cuba? I don't want to get into some legal troubles because of that,
> but blocking downloads seems silly to me.

Is this mentioned in our license?
>
> In any case, this page doesn't seem to be blocked:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-sympy
>
> so we can provide a link to the latest tarball in there from our main
> page at sympy.org. It would run on a virtual machine and I'll provide
> access to all sympy developers, so that if something breaks, anyone
> could fix it, who is awake at the moment.
>
>
> Ondrej
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

Aaron Meurer

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