Hi all.
This is my first mail to the list. I am a student of computer-science
and Mathematics in the Javeriana University of Colombia. I and other
friends are trying to promote the use of free/open-source software over
propietary systems in my career and we have some success, for example
our lab in based only on Linux. I introduce maxima here as a computer
algebra system and now I am trying to spread its use over other systems
(Derive, Mathematica, Maple) because of its philosophy behind (free
software) and the price ;-). Maxima is "my always used" computer algebra
engine behind TeXmacs, a free, powerfull, extensible scientifc word
processor. I am trying the spread of TeXmacs-Maxima combo with the end
users of computer algebra systems in our lab, for example first semester
students and teachers. I have many thanks to give to the people of the
Free/Open-Source software in general and the people of Maxima in
particular Would be nice to give some back. Because I am very newbie to
maxima a dont know yet about lisp is dificult to me help with the
programming stuff. But a nice way to learn and help would be the
translation of the maxima manual to spanish, so I offer my help with
that.
Cheers
Offray Vladimir.
P.D: At this moment I am busy with some work here, so my time is
limited, but you can count me in the spanish translation project.
On jue, 2002-01-17 at 20:11, C Y wrote:
> Just so you guys know, work is still ongoing on the user manual.
> Volunteers still welcome. (Hint, hint. :-) We've made some progress,
> and had some extremely useful contributions. If you want a view of the
> current state of affairs, I've put another pdf up at
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximabook.pdf. Again, this is extremely
> preliminary and Not Ready For Prime Time - my main purpose here is to
> see how people like the new Emaxima formatting for the sessions. I've
> included Jay's Emaxima documentation, some contributions from Pablo,
> the brief history of Maxima, and I've written beginning for the
> plotting and output formatting section, a little trig and derivative
> stuff, and a Rayleigh Quotient example. Nelson H. F. Beebe's impressive
> bibliography (yes it's big, but IMHO it's a darn good resource) and
> some misc stuff have also been included. The install section is going
> to have to be completely rewritten (I'm happy to say) so it can be
> safely ignored for now. We'll work on that section when the new system
> is fully up to speed. This pdf is about 1.8 megs, so those with the
> slow connections watch out. As usual, this hasn't been edited or
> spellechecked, I haven't got all the citations in yet, etc. I'm
> basically hoping to inspire some more people to join the effort. For
> those of you who have already been so helpful - thanks so much! You've
> got us to where we are now.
>
> CY
>
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