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Sage Days: Sage Developer Days

November 4–7, 2013, University of California Davis, USA

The aim of this workshop is for developers to learn the new git workflow, and to try and integrate the combinat queue into git. This workshop will not include beginner topics, but instead assumes participants are familiar with Sage development. We will have an introductory talk on Sage for newcomers on Tuesday afternoon.

Registration

Registration is free. There is limited funding for travel and lodging.

Please contact Anne Schilling (anne at math.ucdavis dot edu) or Travis Scrimshaw (tscrim at ucdavis dot edu) to register. Please indicate if you require funding.

Lodging

The official conference hotel is the Aggie Inn (tel. (530)756-0352). Rates are between 99 and 109 USD depending on bedding type. To get this rate, you need to call the hotel directly and mention the group name SAGE. Last day to book is October 6.

There are other hotels to choose from in Davis, but are generally more expensive.

Transportation

- From San Francisco Airport (SFO)

• Take BART from SFO to either the Richmond station or the Oakland Coliseum station and transfer to Amtrak's Capitol Corridor line. Take the Northbound line to Davis.

- From Oakland Airport

• Take the AirBART shuttle to the Oakland Coliseum BART station and transfer to Amtrak's Capitol Corridor line. Take the Northbound line to Davis.

- From Sacramento Airport

• Bus: Take route 42. See http://www.yolobus.com/news/airportservice.php

• Shuttle: https://www.davisairporter.com/index2.html

See also: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/about/directions/

Schedule

All other time will be devoted to coding sprints. All talks and most coding sprints will take place in MSB 1147.

Projects

The general topics that will be addressed at this workshop are the following:

• Discussion of the new Sage workflow using git.
• Work on how to integrate the combinat queue into the new workflow.
• General bug fixes.

Here are some useful links:

• Git developer guide

• Sage git googlegroups

• Git branches

• Talk on Git by Harald Schilly

Location

University of California Davis

Participants (first tentative)

• Dan Bump (Stanford)
• Andrew Ohana (University of Washington)
• Volker Braun (Oxford University)
• Nate Gallup (UC Davis)
• Viviane Pons (Marne-la-Vallee)
• Darij Grinberg (MIT)
• Tom Roby (University of Connecticut)
• Franco Saliola (UQaM)
• Mathieu Guay-Paquet (UQaM)
• Mike Zabrocki (York University)
• Jessica Striker (North Dakota State University)
• Jeremy Martin (University of Kansas)
• Roger Tian (UC Davis)

Organizers

• Dan Bump, Stanford
• Anne Schilling, UC Davis
• Travis Scrimshaw, UC Davis