Attendees were: Leo Harten, Stavros Macrakis, Larry Gould, Bill Debuque,
Steve Horne.
To the attendees, please feel free to add your comments regarding this
email.
We discussed a lot of different things, some of which was Maxima
related.
Following were the issues:
Who uses Maxima for what:
Larry uses it for teaching and research.
Steve used it to determine form factors for radiation calculations.
We then discussed definite integral tables, and how the integrals
themselves were not copyrightable. We discussed how they
could be used by maxima.
We decided that the lack of a user interface and installation issues
were problems to maxima acceptance.
We also decided that our initial target market was education.
Larry gave a demo of his program that integrates Hamiltonian and
Lagrangian routines along with symbolic solutions of autonomous
differential equations.
Leo is going to donate his and George's code to the maxima project.
Steve is going to investigate grants.