Global Virtual SageDays 109

an event for the SageMath user and developer community on the occasion of the release of SageMath 9.1

held on Thursday, May 28, 2020 (when it is that date in some timezone in the world)

• Beginning: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 10:00:00 (morning) GMT,

  • ... which is May 28, 2020, 00:00 Kiribati time (UTC+14),

• End: Friday, May 29, 2020, 11:59:59 (noon) GMT,

  • ... which is May 28, 2020, 23:59:59 Baker Island time (UTC-12),

a 50-hour fully virtual event. Schedule at researchseminars.org

SageDays are gatherings of people interested in SageMath, from newcomers to contributors. Sage Days have been organized as local, regional, or international in-person meetings by a wide range of people around the globe. Because of the current global health crisis, we organize SageDays 109 as the first fully virtual event in the series.

About SageMath

Sage is a mature, comprehensive, free (open-source) mathematics software system based on Python, licensed under the GNU General Public License, that integrates computer algebra facilities and general computational packages.

Sage, first released in 2005, in over a decade of incubation in the SageMath distribution, comprising 293 software packages, has grown its own library of 1000 Cython and over 4400 Python modules, ranging from sage.algebras.* over sage.geometry.* to sage.tensor.*, with a total of over 2.2 million lines of code.

SageMath 9.0, released in January 2020, completed the transition of the Sage library to Python 3.

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. We will mainly be using a free (open source) software solution for videoconferencing: Discussions and talks will happen via BigBlueButton (BBB; see Wikipedia page; license). We will use the BBB servers at Orsay and/or other French institutions. For the convenience of presenters, we may also use Zoom or Google Meet.

  • Details, schedule, how to access: will 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

• Alex J. Best, Boston University, USA

• Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College, USA

• Edinah K. Gnang, Johns Hopkins University, USA

• Krystal Guo, Université de Montréal, Canada

• Bill Hart, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Kiran Kedlaya, UC San Diego, USA

• Jonathan Kliem, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Matthias Köppe, UC Davis, USA

• Jean-Philippe Labbé, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Kwankyu Lee, Chosun University, South Korea

• Julian Rüth, Free Software enthusiast

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

• Anne Schilling, UC Davis, USA

• Travis Scrimshaw, University of Queensland, Australia

• Fredrik Strömberg, University of Nottingham, UK

• Túlio Toffolo, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

• more to be confirmed

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

Sage in Education Discussion

Moderator: Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College, USA

Creating external packages

First steps and best practices in creating packages and Continuous Integration

https://wiki.sagemath.org/SageMathExternalPackages

Organizer: Samuel Lelièvre, Université Paris-Saclay

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

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

Organizer: Matthias Köppe, UC Davis, USA

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

TBA

Farewell to Python 2 and six

print "Goodbye"

Big-picture Development Discussions

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

Panel:

• John Palmieri, University of Washington, USA

• Nicolas M. Thiéry, Université Paris Sud, France

• TBA

Nettoyage de Printemps (Spring Cleaning)

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

Organizers: Sébastien Labbé, Vincent Delecroix, Xavier Caruso

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. Join the Organization thread on Zulip #sd109 to join the organization team.