[Axiom-developer] address@hidden: David Joyner to do OSCAS column]

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fyi.....

OSCAS is a mailing list I started years ago.
It was intended to be a place to discuss current CA systems
and design ideas for a new system. This grew out of a 
conference I attended sponsored by INRIA.

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:46:26 -0400
From: Emil Volcheck <address@hidden>
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   Tim Daly <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: David Joyner to do OSCAS column
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Hello, all,

I'm happy to report that David Joyner of the US Naval Academy
has offered to start reporting on free and open source computer
algebra software for the ACM Communications in Computer Algebra
and the OSCAS mailing list.  (OSCAS = Open Source Computer
Algebra Systems).

David -- thanks for offering to help, and welcome to the
SIGSAM leadership team!


- --Emil

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:05:50 -0400
From: David Joyner <address@hidden>
To: Emil Volcheck <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: OSCAS, was Re: siam sec [sigsam]
Cc: David Joyner <address@hidden>
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On 10/22/06, Emil Volcheck <address@hidden> wrote:
>David,
>
>On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:15:20AM -0400, David Joyner wrote:
>>
>> This sounds interesting. Are more details available? What type of info
>> goes into the reports?
>
>Take a look at the list archives here
>
>    http://listserv.acm.org/archives/oscas.html
>
>to see what kind of content is on the list now.
>
>We don't have these reports yet.  It's just a project that I'd like a
>volunteer to work on.  I envision a report that would go out 2 or 4
>times per year over the OSCAS mailing list and appear also as a column
>in the ACM Communications in Computer Algebra.
>
>The purpose would be to provide headlines and recent developments in
>free and open source computer algebra systems.  Maple and Mathematica
>market themselves.  There's nobody doing this for FOSS systems
>generally, and we're the right people to do this.
>
>We've been trying to promote and recognize this work by including
>systems on the ISSAC CDs and DVD so that everyone who attends ISSAC
>gets this software in their hot little hands.
>
>If you're interested in doing this, it would be a very neat service to
>the community.  I would try to find people to help feed you
>information so that you don't have to do everything yourself.  For
>instance, Tim Daly to cover Axiom, and maybe someone involved with
>GAP.  You would be able to report on SAGE.
>
>So what do you think?  Would you like to volunteer?  I'd love

Yes, sounds good! Thanks for the great suggestion.
Is there a due date for the first column? Could I send a draft to you first 
for
criticism ahead of time?


>to welcome you to the SIGSAM leadership team.
>
>--Emil
>
>
>--
>Emil Volcheck
>address@hidden
>http://acm.org/~volcheck
>

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