Have you considered having a Sage Journal?

[Diego Sejas]

Hello, Sage Community!

I am not completely sure that this is the correct place to propose an idea like this, but I think that here it can be upvoted or downvoted, and commented.

I have been thinking for a long time that the Sage Community should have a Journal for everyone of us being able to read what is going on with Sage; how it is being used in research, education, etc.; what improvements have been made; etc., etc., etc. Perhaps an annual publication, so it is not so much of a burden for the editors (?).

Since the Global Virtual SageDays 109 is approaching (yay!!!), it could be a good moment to discuss this idea with the community. Actually, I can see that somebody already asked about how people is using Sage in research, education, etc. (https://ask.sagemath.org/question/51524/how-do-you-use-sagemath-in-research-education/) That could evolve into a small journal with a few articles about the use of Sage, if enough people collaborate.

Please, let me know what you think.

(If this is the incorrect place to make a proposal like this, please, guide me to the correct resource. In any case, I am posting this same question in https://ask.sagemath.org/question/51529/have-you-considered-having-a-sage-journal/.)

[Diego Sejas]

Hello, Sage Community!

I am not completely sure that this is the correct place to propose an idea like this, but I think that here it can be upvoted or downvoted, and commented.

I have been thinking for a long time that the Sage Community should have a Journal for everyone of us being able to read what is going on with Sage; how it is being used in research, education, etc.; what improvements have been made; etc., etc., etc. Perhaps an annual publication, so it is not so much of a burden for the editors (?).

Since the Global Virtual SageDays 109 is approaching (yay!!!), it could be a good moment to discuss this idea with the community. Actually, I can see that somebody already asked about how people is using Sage in research, education, etc. That could evolve into a small journal with a few articles about the use of Sage, if enough people contribute.

[kcrisman]

On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 2:44:12 AM UTC-4, Diego Sejas wrote:

Hello, Sage Community!

I am not completely sure that this is the correct place to propose an idea like this, but I think that here it can be upvoted or downvoted, and commented.

I have been thinking for a long time that the Sage Community should have a Journal for everyone of us being able to read what is going on with Sage; how it is being used in research, education, etc.; what improvements have been made; etc., etc., etc. Perhaps an annual publication, so it is not so much of a burden for the editors (?).

Since the Global Virtual SageDays 109 is approaching (yay!!!), it could be a good moment to discuss this idea with the community. Actually, I can see that somebody already asked about how people is using Sage in research, education, etc. (https://ask.sagemath.org/question/51524/how-do-you-use-sagemath-in-research-education/) That could evolve into a small journal with a few articles about the use of Sage, if enough people collaborate.

There was actually a proposal like this quite a long time ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100615075428/https://www.sagemath.org/jsage/ref.html

The idea was to have a place where people could publish code in a refereed sense.  To my recollection, at that time there wasn't enough interest from academic departments (and perhaps still isn't) in awarding promotion based on such code.

Other groups do have such publications, e.g. the TuGboat (https://tug.org/tugboat/) for TeX or the R Journal (https://journal.r-project.org).  I think those that do may have an order of magnitude higher number of "power users", though.  But it would be great to have something like this for Sage.  An annual edition would seem reasonable, and certainly would be great for visibility/publicity (see the moribund https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sage-marketing for one of many attempts at this).

[Ursula Whitcher]

It might also be worth looking at the Journal of Software in Algebra and Geometry:

https://msp.org/jsag/about/journal/about.html

Their current focus is Macaulay2, but as I recall, some of the editors have previously expressed interest in including Sage-based articles as well.

UAW

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[mmarco]

I have just published a paper there, with the Sage code to compute minimal models of GCDA's. So it is certainly possible to publish Sage papers there, but my impression is that the journal is more geared towards publishing "external packages" (which might fit with the workflow of  systems like Macaulay2) , rather than code that is integrated in the system itself (as we do in Sage).

Something similar happens in the Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org/).

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