promote Sage on python success stories

[Karol Szkudlarek]

Hello,

Please consider adding on Python mainstream webpage some info about Sage project. It was a great idea to choose Python as a main programming language to implement Sage project.
So I think that python and python foundation will be proud to hear about that. So I think that it will be good idea to add some notes here:
https://www.python.org/about/success/

Regards,
Karol Szkudlarek

[Nathann Cohen]

Please consider adding on Python mainstream webpage some info about Sage project. It was a great idea to choose Python as a main programming language to implement Sage project.
So I think that python and python foundation will be proud to hear about that. So I think that it will be good idea to add some notes here:
https://www.python.org/about/success/

I am not sure that we qualify. We have an ongoing debate about whether Sage is a failure :-)

Nathann 

[Christophe Bal]

A failure ? Why ?

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[William A Stein]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Christophe Bal <proj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A failure ? Why ?
>

Nathann is making a joke, based on a sage-devel thread, in which I
explain why I'm putting so much energy into https://cloud.sagemath.com

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[kcrisman]

A failure ? Why ?

See http://sagemath.blogspot.com/

However, note that this is with respect to a very high goal indeed, which is to replicate every last bit of functionality in the programs mentioned in the mission statement.

[Joel B. Mohler]

It is a very high goal but I think that "replicate every last bit of functionality" is NOT equivalent with be "a viable alternative".  After all is Mathematica a viable alternative to sage?  It certainly does not replicate every last bit of functionality of sage (one of the reasons I'd never touch mathematica with a 10 foot pole is that mathematica's idea of a programming language drastically doesn't fit my brain -- and I think the batteries included nature of python is important functionality).  But, I think I may simply have constructed an argument that it's not possible to be reach the high points of sage & mathematica in one package.

Joel (ex-sage user; now in a parallel industry)

[Harald Schilly]

> https://www.python.org/about/success/

That's a nice idea, but how to submit something and what exactly? On one hand one can mention that Sage is used by "some people" and that there are a lot of Python code-lines. On the other hand, many more still do not use Sage and many lines of code are actually Cython.

Is it correct that this explains how to submit something?
http://brochure.getpython.info/learn-more

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[Karol Szkudlarek]

Herald,

Yes the link to brochure in python is right and in paragraph "I have interesting project" says:

"

We would like to present case studies that demonstrate how well Python can be used to implement and run real-life use cases – topics that are interesting to a wide audience and without requiring to know a lot about computers or programming.

If you work on or know about such a project, please contact us at the following mail address: brochure [at] getpython [dot] info. Thank you!"

So I think that it will be enough to write something general features maybe add some presentations and sent to broc...@getpython.info

Probably brochure writtters write an article in next brochure release.

Secondly promoting Sage is mutual gain because Sage needs Python, and Python needs project written in Python.

Karol Szk.

[Karol Szkudlarek]

Additionally SAGE may appear in "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python" in chapter about scientific applications:

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/scenarios/scientific/

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/

Regards, Karol Szk.