On 6/20/07, Jaime E. Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> that's what they do in Moodle. I can create a script in the website
> to allow people to register the sites where they use Maxima and
> use NetGEO to guess their coordinates.
Jaime, thanks a lot for following up on this idea. Looks like there is
a lot of interest. I'll jump on the bandwagon too: I'm in scenic
Boulder, Colorado, latitude N 40, longitude W 105.
About making a script to create the map on demand, I wonder
if we can run it from our web space at Sourceforge.
I don't remember what is their policy about CGI scripts or
other means of launching programs to translate user input
into an HTML response. Best case scenario at the moment
would be to leave a running Maxima process which forks
for each new request (SBCL can do that, I wrote some code
to create a simple-minded Maxima server). I don't know if that
is OK according to SF policy.
best
Robert