Sage Days 111 - Global Virtual Sage Modularization and Packaging Summit

Tuesday, December 8 to Friday, December 11, 2020

An event for the SageMath developer and packaging community

SageDays are gatherings of people interested in SageMath. 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, Sage Days 111 will be a fully virtual event.

About SageMath

SageMath, or Sage for short, 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.

How to register and participate

• Registration and poll for detailed scheduling: https://framadate.org/JxZ7MZs74VxCQSN4

• Join our zulip #sd111 messaging stream. This stream will contain all of the information regarding the activities of Sage Days 111.

• Video conferencing: We will primarily be using Zoom and BigBlueButton (BBB; see Wikipedia page; license) (with BBB servers at Orsay and/or other French institutions). However, other software such as Google Meet can also be used.

  • Details, how to access: will be announced on the Zulip stream.

Tentative schedule

• Tue 2020-12-08 18:00-23:00 UTC - Core synchronous event
• Wed 2020-12-09 20:00-21:00 UTC - Status report 2
• Thu 2020-12-10 20:00-21:00 UTC - Status report 3
• Fri 2020-12-11 20:00-21:00 UTC - Status report 4

Organizers

• Matthias Köppe, UC Davis, USA

• Dima Pasechnik, U. Oxford, UK