Hi,
I read the summary of the calcul-formel-libre@math.cnrs.fr mailing list.
I also skimmed some of the messages in the archive. My French is pretty
poor, so I feel like I must be missing something. What exactly is the
point of this effort? I see quite a bit of discussion of the limitations
of existing commercial systems, but not much attention to existing free
systems. I couldn't find any references to Maxima on the list at all. Is
the goal exclusively to create a new system?
--Jim
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 01:44, Daniel Duparc wrote:
> >From Daniel Duparc <daniel.duparc@free.fr> on behalf of the
> "Comit'e pour un calcul formel libre".
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> Workshop on Open Source Computer Algebra
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> First Announcement
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> Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd of May 2002
> Lyon, France
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> http://www.lapcs.univ-lyon1.fr/~nthiery/CalculFormelLibre/workshop.html
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> Organizing committee: Daniel Duparc, Bernard Mourrain, Bernard
> Parisse, Fabrice Rouillier, Marie-Françoise Roy, Nicolas Thiéry, and
> Paul Zimmermann.
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> The organization of this workshop was initiated after long discussions
> on the french mailing list calcul-formel-libre@math.cnrs.fr last
> autumn. The aim is to take a snapshot of the situation of free
> software in the domain of symbolic computations, and to study the
> feasibility of a free system in this domain. By free we mean open
> source, and more precisely compatible with the GPL; by system we mean
> indifferently a software or a collection of software.
>
>
> This meeting will be followed by a school on the effective use of such
> tools, based on tutorial presentations.
> It will take place in Giens, September 16-20 th, 2002.
> See http://www-sop.inria.fr/galaad/conf/ecole02.html for more information.
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