[Axiom-developer] FW: [FrontPage] More developers on Axiom

[Bill Page]

Axiom Developers;

Recently there have appeared some new Axiom users who seem to prefer to
interact via the Axiom Portal rather than by email or through the Wiki.
Changes and additions to the content on the Axiom Portal are not
automatically forwarded to the axiom-developer list, however registered
users of the Portal can subscribe to receive notifactions similar to those
received when the content of the Axiom Wiki is changed.

I have forwarded the following posting here to the axiom-developer list just
as a reminder of the existence of the Axiom Portal side of MathAction and
because I think some people here might find it interesting.

Regards,
Bill Page.

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Subject: [FrontPage] More developers on Axiom


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I think one of the most important thing that is required for success of
axiom is to induce more developers on axiom. Axiom has been under
development for quite a long time and has grown into a very complex beast so
it is rather hard to for a new developer to "dive-in" to the project right
away; one needs to have good background of what is its philosophy, how
various parts work so forth. 

Those who are on this project must be sort of die-hard fans of it :)Hence to
attract more developers, I feel, the strategy should be to expand its
user-base. If a person is happily using axiom he would at some point of time
would add some funtionality to it which could be integrated. In this light,
IMHO, the target audience should not just be those who would be doing
research but all kinds of people who would ever be using a CAS. People
generally tend to remain loyal with their first system: so the idea should
be a kind of "Catch them young" philosophy.

One recent news is that the MuPad is under trouble for various political
reasons. I feel sorry about it but there is something that axiom can from
this situation to its advantage: Axiom is the only system I that is close to
MuPad. Existing MuPad users can be braught to the axiom community.

One more suggestion. There have been a lot of people who have involved in
making axiom. A kind of interview of them would benefitial to any new
developer or user discussing their viewpoint on the system and would
motivate the developers. (I followed the link from the thread above and
found http://people.kde.org doing the same.
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