Re: [Mupad-combinat-users] Sage Days at RISC

[Nicolas M. T. <Nic...@u-...>]

	Dear *-Combinat developers,

Thanks to the kind help of Ralf Hemmecke, Burcin Erocal, and Michael
Abshoff, and the support of Peter Paule, it sounds like we will be
able to run a *-Combinat workshop at RISC, right after FPSAC 2009:

    *-Combinat 2009
      Free Software for Algebraic Combinatorics
      Users and Developers Workshop
      July 25-29, 2009

We have to fix quickly the rough organization details, and need your
feedback on the following questions:

 - Who is interested in participating? How many days?
   (in principle; no commitment yet)

 - How long a workshop? Should we extend to, say, July 30, to feel a
   bit more free to relax a bit on Sunday after a crazy FPSAC week?

 - Suggestions to improve the title above:
    - Michael thinks it should include Sage, and I fully agree, even
      though I want to leave the door wide open for our friends from
      sister projects.
      Suggestions?
      Maybe an extra line "with a slant toward Sage"?
      Or replace *-Combinat by (Sage)-Combinat?
    - Should we dare to replace line 2 by
      Free and Powerful Software for Algebraic Combinatorics
      for a FPSAC pun?

> Ralf: I am not so sure about the actual content. What is planned?

Nothing very precise yet: helping former MuPAD-Combinat users to
switch to Sage, getting new users and developers on board, design
discussions, coding sprints. I had in mind few preplanned talks (a
general Sage talk, one for Sage-Combinat, probably some presentations
of specific packages (like one on species). And improvised technical
talks whenever needed. But I haven't though much about this, so it's
wide open to other ideas!

				Nicolas

PS: Ralf, others, please feel free to forward to whoever you might see
fit.

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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nt...@us...>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/