Global Virtual SageDays 109

on the occasion of the release of Sage 9.1

held on Thursday, May 28, 2020 (any timezone in the world)

• Beginning: May 28, 2020, 00:00 Kiribati time (UTC+14)
• End: May 28, 2020, 23:59:59 Baker Island time (UTC-12)

a 50-hour fully virtual event. Calendar, subscription link

How to participate

• Please register (ASAP) if you intend to participate: https://zulip.sagemath.org/#narrow/stream/126-sd109/topic/Registration.20for.20Global.20Virtual.20SageDays.20109

• Join our zulip #sd109 messaging stream. This stream drives the SageDays event. All activities are announced there.

• Video conferencing (details and schedule to be announced on the Zulip stream)

Activities

To offer or request presentations on specific topics, please edit https://trac.sagemath.org/wiki/SagePresentationsMarketplace and/or post a message in the zulip stream #sd109

Confirmed Speakers

• Bill Hart, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Kiran Kedlaya, UC San Diego, USA

• Matthias Köppe, UC Davis, USA

• Haroldo G. Santos, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

• Anne Schilling, UC Davis, USA

Introduction to Sage

Details TBA

Installfest

We give step-by-step instructions on how to install Sage 9.1 from source.

Experienced developers will help if any problems appear.

Spontaneous celebrations on completed installations are encouraged.

Sage User Forum

We would love to hear from users of SageMath how they use Sage... in research, in education, in applications, ...

Share your Sage wishlist

Format TBA

Organizer: Yuan Zhou, University of Kentucky, USA

Creating external packages

First steps and best practices in creating packages and Continuous Integration

Introduction to Sage Development

For Sage users who wish to take the first (or the next) steps in Sage development.

Presentations: What's New in Sage 9.1

Organizer: Matthias Köppe

Following https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.1

SageMath, Mathematical Libraries, and the Landscape of Computer Algebra Software

TBA

Big-picture Development Discussions

• Modularization of Sage
• Integration with the Python community
• The next 10 years of Sage development

Nettoyage de Printemps (Spring Cleaning)

Organizers: Sébastien Labbé, Vincent Delecroix, Xavier Caruso

The aim is to go through the already existing trac tickets and

• confirm if the bug is still present on recent development versions
• provide code
• make reviews

Useful links

• trac tickets sorted by time (oldest first)

• trac tickets reported as "defect" (as opposed to enhancement) (oldest first)

Organizers of SageDays 109

This is a community-organized event.