Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> Is there any interest in forming a group to continue the development
> and maintenance of maxima? I for one would certainly be interested in
> helping. My qualifications are: Ph.D. in theoretical physics (and the
> skills in mathematics pertaining thereunto :-)), fluent programming in
> C, years of experience with Linux development tools, maintain Debian
> maxima package. Unfortunately, I currently have little ability in
> Lisp, and am not very familiar with the maxima code base.
>
> Anyone else interested?
It seems there is a lot of interest, but a lot of people lack the
time. I have the interest, and I could probably make a reasonable
amount of time, but alas I lack the skills. My qualifications are a
Ph.D in math (and any skills in theoretical physics that entails), but
little programming experience. (I've worked some in elisp, but I'm by
no means an expert. I plan to familiarize myself with common lisp,
solely because of Maxima, but I'm not there yet.)
But to whoever continues the development, I can certainly help out
with things like documentation, and any busy work.
> ... we might even avail ourselves of sourceforge.net
I think that GNU has their own version of sourceforge (I don't
remember the name) that would probably be more appropriate.
To whoever said that the continued maintainance of Maxima would be a
good tribute to William Schelter, I wholeheartedly agree; I also think
that some form of Maxima needs to continue, and this seems to be the
only (or at least most visible) version remaining, and finally I think
that a free CAS is one of the more important free software projects.
Jay