Sage at the joint meetings in New Orleans, 2011

We are planning to have a booth this year.

The meeting is January 6-9, 2011.

AMS website for the meeting: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2125_intro.html

People who will be at the meetings and can help with the booth:

• Jason Bandlow (Depending on my interview schedule, but I can likely help at least one shift)
• Rob Beezer (I'll commit to a half-day shift, and will likely be around more)
• Karl-Dieter Crisman (pretty much all of Saturday, possibly other times)

• DanDrake

• Burcin Erocal
• Marshall Hampton (most of the time)
• John Perry
  • except Friday 1-3p, Saturday 2.30-4p
• Flavia Stan (about half the time)
• Dana Ernst (I can be available for a few hours on Friday; I'll swing by on Thursday to see when I'd be most useful)

The exhibit hours are

• 12:15-5:30 Th
• 9:30-5:30 Fr
• 9:30-5:30 Sa
• 9:00-12:00 Su

Photos of the Booth (January 8/9)

Flavia Stan, Visitor, Burcin Erocal, Vistor, Tom Judson, Marshall Hampton

Jason Grout, Visitor, Rob Beezer, Visitor

Stiched panorama with the Judson Twins and a Ghostly Burcin

Notes for the Next Meeting

Notes, ideas, reminders for the next iteration, in no particular order.

• Pay for a small table (small was less of a barrier, but barely sufficient)
• Pay for two chairs (even though expensive)
• Have 3d glasses---they drew lots of people to the table and into conversation.
• Business cards were popular and ran out, these are critical
• Take a projector to have a large screen
• Or arrange for a local to bring a flat-panel screen (with stand)
• Hooks or string for banner
• Decorations (helium balloons, bright candy, etc)
• Stickers (slide into name-badge, then affix at home)
• Sage-related textbooks
• Have a 5-step Quickstart guide to using Sage:
  1. Log into sagenb
  2. Find a quick-start published worksheet
  3. Evaluate a cell
  4. Create a new cell and evaluate 1+1
  5. Create a new cell and evaluate a cool plot
  6. Create a new cell and calculate rref of a matrix
• Advertise ask.sagemath.org (on business card?)
  • Info: sagemath.org
  • Use: sagenb.org
  • Questions? ask.sagemath.org