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

[Conrado M. <co...@ls...>]

On Thursday 20 November 2008, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote:
> 	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.
> 
> --
> Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nt...@us...>
> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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Dear all

I submitted a paper to FPSAC and if accepted (I hope so), I'll probably attend the *-Combinat event
.
Why not OSSAC = Open Source Software for Algebraic Combinatorics ... Free means gratis, you have not 
to pay, right? I think the emphasis should be on the source being open, even if you have to pay for it, 
do we agree? Sage will probably 
be the star of the event, but I think it is good to have a broader scope ... Any open source package for
combinatorics is OSSAC even if the system for which the package is meant is not.

Best regards
Conrado