It is my pleasure to introduce the Sage Interact website at
interact.sagemath.org
It s a space for Sage users to share snippets of code or Sage worksheets on a single, public site. Anyone can browse the published content, but only registered users can access the full features. Register an account by clicking on an OpenID account provider and confirming your email address. Once you ve registered, you can share your own snippets of code, bookmark your favorite posts, and interact with other users.
To add your own post, log in and click the Add new post menu link on the far left-hand side of the menu bar. Complete the Create Sage Post form that appears:
* The Title field is just that - a title for your post.
* The Code field is where you add your code. It utilizes an embedded Sage cell so you can evaluate / debug your snippet before you post it.
* The Description field is where you can add any other information you think other users might want to know about your post. Use this field to explain your code or elaborate on the topic at hand. If you ve typed up a rather lengthy description (like this wall of text), you might want to consider adding an alternative summary description. Think of the Summary as an abstract: just enough information to get others interested in your post, leaving your description to handle the finer details. Click on Edit summary next to the Description label to edit your post s summary.
* Add Tags to your post with a few searchable keywords.
* Use the Images field to attach a screenshot of your code in action. The image is also displayed on teaser pages; use it to attract viewers to your post.
* The Files field is for attaching a set of Sage worksheets or other post-related files. There is a 2MB file limit.
* Finally, the Author Credit field provides a space to credit others that may have played a part in the creation of your post. Be generous!
Only the Title and Description fields are required (of course, you also need to leave the License checkbox checked).
Click Save at the bottom of the page and you re finished! To Edit your now-published post at anytime, navigate to it and click the Edit tab at the top of the page.
Since every post embeds a live Sage cell for the code, you can run and customize the code on any post. Click "Permalink" in the output of any Sage cell to get a link to your customized version.
If you have any questions about the Interact website, check out the FAQ page. Feel free to post a suggestion for improvement on the Suggestions page.
There are a lot of other features to explore, so get out there and interact!
Thanks for your time,
Byron Varberg and Jason Grout
On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:41:19 PM UTC+2, jason wrote:
> Register an account > by clicking on an OpenID account provider and confirming your email > address.
Fantastic, I already saw it and now it looks really mature. Only drawback ... how do I confirm this email address?! I got no email and I don't see any link or form, just this small notification bar.
Really great - thanks a billion Jason for doing this. I think
math+calc students will find this useful.
I did a bit of fiddling before getting to register (I agree with Harold
that the procedure is slightly non-standard). My only minor
complaint is that for such a site, I usually see in the upper
RH corner an indication that I am logged in (eg, my login and a logout link).
> It is my pleasure to introduce the Sage Interact website at
> interact.sagemath.org
> It’s a space for Sage users to share snippets of code or Sage worksheets on
> a single, public site. Anyone can browse the published content, but only
> registered users can access the full features. Register an account by
> clicking on an OpenID account provider and confirming your email address.
> Once you’ve registered, you can share your own snippets of code, bookmark
> your favorite posts, and interact with other users.
> To add your own post, log in and click the Add new post menu link on the far
> left-hand side of the menu bar. Complete the Create Sage Post form that
> appears:
> * The Title field is just that - a title for your post.
> * The Code field is where you add your code. It utilizes an embedded
> Sage cell so you can evaluate / debug your snippet before you post it.
> * The Description field is where you can add any other information you
> think other users might want to know about your post. Use this field to
> explain your code or elaborate on the topic at hand. If you’ve typed up a
> rather lengthy description (like this wall of text), you might want to
> consider adding an alternative ‘summary’ description. Think of the Summary
> as an abstract: just enough information to get others interested in your
> post, leaving your ‘description’ to handle the finer details. Click on Edit
> summary next to the Description label to edit your post’s summary.
> * Add Tags to your post with a few searchable keywords.
> * Use the Images field to attach a screenshot of your code in action.
> The image is also displayed on teaser pages; use it to attract viewers to
> your post.
> * The Files field is for attaching a set of Sage worksheets or other
> post-related files. There is a 2MB file limit.
> * Finally, the Author Credit field provides a space to credit others
> that may have played a part in the creation of your post. Be generous!
> Only the Title and Description fields are required (of course, you also need
> to leave the License checkbox checked).
> Click Save at the bottom of the page and you’re finished! To Edit your
> now-published post at anytime, navigate to it and click the Edit tab at the
> top of the page.
> Since every post embeds a live Sage cell for the code, you can run and
> customize the code on any post. Click "Permalink" in the output of any Sage
> cell to get a link to your customized version.
> If you have any questions about the Interact website, check out the FAQ
> page. Feel free to post a suggestion for improvement on the Suggestions
> page.
> There are a lot of other features to explore, so get out there and interact!
> Thanks for your time,
> Byron Varberg and Jason Grout
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> Really great - thanks a billion Jason for doing this. I think
> math+calc students will find this useful.
> I did a bit of fiddling before getting to register (I agree with Harold
> that the procedure is slightly non-standard). My only minor
> complaint is that for such a site, I usually see in the upper
> RH corner an indication that I am logged in (eg, my login and a logout link).
> Still, great and *many* thanks.
Please put that on the suggestions page. We're going to wait a bit for people to try it out and accumulate suggestions. Then we'll tweak it to be better.
Also, a big thanks to Byron, who was the main author of the site! By the way, a byproduct of this is a Drupal module to have sage cells on a Drupal website, in case anyone wants that. Let us know.
> On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:41:19 PM UTC+2, jason wrote:
> Register an account
> by clicking on an OpenID account provider and confirming your email
> address.
> Fantastic, I already saw it and now it looks really mature. Only
> drawback ... how do I confirm this email address?! I got no email and I
> don't see any link or form, just this small notification bar.
Which openid provider did you use? Google?
For example, with Google, you should be able to click on the Google icon, log into google (if you haven't logged in already), and then you should be brought to a page that asks for a user name and email address (defaults to the google email address). What did it do for you?
> Do you think it is possible to make distributed cloud for sage cell server?
> Like - all cells in the world are schedued on the same huge cluster?
> I think that it could improve responsibility of project like interact
> site, which is right now unresponsive.
> the best
> Marcin
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> Do you think it is possible to make distributed cloud for sage cell server?
> Like - all cells in the world are schedued on the same huge cluster?
> I think that it could improve responsibility of project like interact
> site, which is right now unresponsive.
Definitely possible. We were going to be looking at using Google App Engine this fall, but we also need to figure out a business model to pay for the enterprise-level service. Also, William's new Sage server will probably have a sage cell server of some sort that will scale nicely (hopefully).
> Do you think it is possible to make distributed cloud for sage cell
> server?
> Like - all cells in the world are schedued on the same huge cluster?
> I think that it could improve responsibility of project like
> interact site, which is right now unresponsive.
> For me it doesn't seem to perform computations at all...
The sage cell server has been down over the weekend (along with *.sagenb.org servers, except for the primary sagenb.org server). I think William is looking at migrating the cell server to a different computer, hopefully today.
