Sage -- Welcome / Status report
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<font size=+3><h1>Welcome and Opening Remarks</h1></font>
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Welcome to Sage Devel Days 1 (aka Sage Days 8.5)!
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MISSION STATEMENT: Create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica.
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<font size=+2><h1 align=center>Goals for 2008</h1></font>

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<li> Port Sage to Solaris, MSVC 32/64-bit Windows, and 64-bit OS X.  A "Sage lite" will come out of this.
<li> Increase doctest coverage to 100%.
<li> Major work on core library: combinatorics (sage-combinat), modular forms (major new NSF FRG grant) 
<li> Establish new directions: statistics, quantitative finance, native symbolic calculus
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This is <i>NOT</i> the year for adding more external packages to Sage!  We will be
<i>extremely conservative</i> for the rest of the year.  Next year will be different.
Adding new packages is VERY BAD when porting is our number one priority.

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<font size=+2><h1 align=center>Sage continues to grow</h1></font>

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<li> Save-devel has 497 subscribers.
<li> Save-support has 552 subscribers.
<li> Roughly 25-50 contributors to each new release.
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<font size=+1><h1 align=center>"Forking stuff since 2005"</h1></font>

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<li> Cython -- compiled Python; project is going very strong
<li> MPIR -- multiprecision integer and rationals 
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<font size=+2><h1 align=center>Sage is getting much more support</h1></font>


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<li> Microsoft Research
<li> Google
<li> DoD
<li> NSF
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Rumors of some sort of commercial presence...(?)  Interest from Boeing, REvolution, ...? 

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There will be over <b>ten people</b> who are funded to work on Sage
fulltime all summer.  And I'm <b>not</b> one of them!

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<font size=+2><h1>Workshops</h1></font>

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<font size=+2 color='#800'>SEVEN Sage Days Workshops in 2008!!</font>
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Upcoming workshops:
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<li> Sage Days 9: Vancouver
<li> Sage Days 10: France
<li> Sage Days 11: Austin, TX
<li> Sage Days 12: San Diego
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<font size=+2><h1>This Workshop</h1></font>

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<li> Cython
<li> Exact Linear Algebra
<li> Porting Sage to Windows
<li> Modular Forms
<li> Parallel Computation
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<b>Fully</b> funded by the NSF and DoD.  Thanks!
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<font size=+2><h1>General Schedule Template</h1></font>

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 11:00am -- 12:00pm: only one talk each day, at 11am.  
                     Please please be there if at all possible!  
 12:00pm -- 1:30pm: lunch
  1:30pm -- 4:00pm: sprints and mini-talks (on day 1 each 
                    project group should get organized)
  4:00pm -- 5:30pm: status reports in MEB 238 from each project group
  5:30pm -- 7:00pm: dinner 
  7:00pm -- midnight: informal evening talks; coding sprints in MEB 238 
                    or coffee shops (e.g., Solstice on the ave!) on projects
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Special events on Saturday and Sunday, and Monday night. 

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<font size=+2><h1>TODAY</h1></font>

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 10:00am - 10:30am:  William Stein -- Welcome and opening remarks / status report talk
 10:30am - 11:00am:  Bagels, Fruit, and Coffee
 11:00am - 12:00pm:  Dan Gindikin -- The Joy of Pex  (a Cython talk)
 12:00pm -  1:30pm:  Lunch
  1:30pm -  4:00pm:  Informal Coding sprints
  4:00pm -  5:00pm:  Coding Sprint Organizational Session / Status
  5:30pm -  7:00pm:  Dinner
  7:00pm - 12:00am:  Coding Sprints at MEB 238, Solstice, etc.
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