- at least 52 tickets (what are the top tickets?)
- $2000 bounties (funded by CivicRM)
- $5400 teaching ($45/class * 30 classes/qtr * 4 qtr/yr)
- $6600 PM Operations Manager (20% of $33,000/yr)
Advisory board: ask them about other people who can do content or coding: can we get a student doing undergrad study once a semester?
Offering mentorship and experience: you could be developing cutting edge math on the web content and technology
https://github.com/holtzermann17/planetmath-docs (organization level) https://github.com/kwarc/planetary (technical issues)
scheduled: <2013-10-17 thu>
scheduled: <2013-11-09 sat>
i can imagine quickly getting out of my depth, so i want to be realistic about that – at the same time, i also want to be realistic about (a) what sort of institutional support would help (as well as (b) what sort of institutional support would be possible).
«the problem is that the demand for drupal talent exceeds the supply. as such, most of the drupal developers i know are maxed out.» http://buytaert.net/on-hiring-drupal-talent if we had money, we’d probably end up hiring someone like florian lengyel, and, with due respect, i don’t know for sure that he knows more about this stuff than me. rather than putting all our eggs in one basket (a given lead dev), i think the issue should have more to do with building the skills of the team. here, i think you’re on the right track with reading a few books! but what else can we do here?
for instance, if the hott thing takes off, then prioritize bug fixes and improvements which affect how the book displays and the like. i agree. i think we’re using the github tracker well. we can ping the latexml developers as well – they are reasonably active in bugfixing, so we can get support on those issues.
examples include documentation, cleaning up, and making things easier to install. yes - maybe we need to allocate a certain number of weekly hours to these things. for instance, if we always meet on saturday, we could allocate n hours before and n hours after the meeting to this sort of stuff.
for instance, should glen whitney come to the conclusion that planetary and/or planetmath were useful for running the math museum, quite likely he’d pay florian lengyel to work on it. other candidates include springer and the n-cat lab. we should find time to contact them or, if we’re not ready yet, figure out exactlly what else needs to be done to planetary to put it into a shape which is worth promoting and prioritize those improvements. i did write to florian, but he didn’t write back yet. in general i agree with this priority – sounds like maybe rather than a weekly cycle, we need a monthly cycle here. can we add this to your monthly agenda?
that’s a tall order, we’ve talked about it for some years, but it could help in bringing in coders. right now, in new york, i am seeing the tech community growing by leaps and bounds and think that there is a niche for something like this, providing we don’t wait for someone else to do it first. otoh, simply creating a new drupal instance for us to use to document things as we go would be very easy. it might not immediately take off, but at least we’d know where we were putting our documentation - and it would be actively in use as long as we and other planetary devs were using it.
along those lines, i am noting a rapidly growing interest in the intersection of math and computers among the functional programming community. thus, i want to be sure to get back to hdm stuff and keep at least a foot in that door lest we get lost on the wyside as forgotten pioneers. one of the things i am hoping to do today and tomorrow is to pose pm as a place for discussions and work on this topic.
porting this into planetary would be a good idea, putting under the planetmath umbrella would be ok. contact ben to discuss and get latest snapshot of pp.
reviving what i did back in the good old days of pm, but with a new medium. this would be a bottom-up, grassroots opportunity for members of the pm community to meet each other and discuss topics of mutual interest, give feedback, and raise concerns and suggestions,
a chance to get together and discuss the codebase of planetary, nnexus, and friends.
Like today, a structured meeting with an agenda to set the course of the organization for the upcoming month, review progress, and handle any issues which arise. we could have every third such meeting automatically be the quarterly board meeting.
Something like our old NRI meetings or lispnyc meetups; each one starts with a presentation by one of the members on some mathematical topic of interest, followed by a discussion of that topic which may move into other areas deppending on the interest of the attendees.
Invite Charlie, Charlotte, Helene?
This is a reminder to please provide dumps of attached entries and keywords. Don’t worry about the format, just use whatever is most convenient since I will massage it into the proper format for uptake into BABAR and tidy it up.
AS I mentioned, I think that this group which is meeting in New York is a wonderful opportunity for PM. Their next meeting is during the first week of October and I hoping we can have most of the following in place by then.
Even if we haven’t finished everything we hope to, I nevertheless think that it would be worthwhile to have some sort of a site relaunch sometime in October.
There is a “work around” (the feature works, but only works for admin users).
Since this week has been hectic with unrelated house work, I didn’t get a chance to put together the announcement for the course; I will attend to that in the upcoming week. Because of all the other things going on, because preparing the textbook has turned out to be more time-consuming than anticipated, and because it is already the middle of September, I am thinking of instead scheduling the course for the first quarter of 2014 and putting out the announcement and registration along with the relaunch.
Once the dust settles from all these other items, it might be time to reconvene our advisory board. I like what you are doing; for instance, we might tell them that it would cost 20000 Euros to fix up the Drupal and that there is a EU grant which could pay for this providing that we can come up with 5000 Euros on our end and work through a European organization, then see what Michael and everyone else come up with. In general, I think that starting the discussion with such concrete data and suggestions should keep us from again floating about in vague proposals and platitudes about attracting more volunteers and the like.
Following up what you sent about bibliographies in Planetary, I would like to sort out the different things related to bibliographies into a coherent plan. I am thinking that we could get in touch with Pitman and with the fellow at OU to see how things are going with BKN and figure out where we fit in to this scheme of things
Contact Wikiversity and Wikibkooks people to ask them what would be useful for them and look into collaboration with PM and FKN on course projects. Contact past/present PM users who who were/are involved with WP.
Immediate wish is to raise €11K ($15K USD) to pay programmers, can we find a foundation that would help with that?
We’ve made some progress on this
Ray is working on the calculus book and will try to launch in Spring (has a business model so we don’t necessarily need to apply for grants here)
Write something for Christoph about this - to send to EU?… and connect it with “computer math” Starting HoTT, hyperbolic geometry, resistor networks and the like as ad hoc projects using existing software.
https://github.com/holtzermann17/planetmath-docs/wiki/Business-Models
Joe can be working on hooking up the CivicRM software
We can be a center for the development of online tools, we’ve proven our ability to develop things without much funding. We can do things that need to be done for math online, peer learning, social computing – without being too entrenched.
http://www.wikimedia.org/ we’ve proposed a version of the Books preview here Rolling schedule, so can resubmit after getting feedback. They have several different “flavors” of grants we can apply for, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
And we’ve gotten some feedback, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/PlanetMath_Books_Project#Aggregated_feedback_from_the_committee_for_PlanetMath_Books_Project
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org Does do capacity building grants, mainly interested in organizations based in the UK… http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/capacity-building
They are also specifically interested in mathematics education: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/mathematics-education
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/mathematics-education-0 here’s some more info about their work in this area.
They might be interested in our Classroom preview? Also, since they are not opposed to capacity building, they might be interested in addressing some of the core issues in our Strategic Plan at the top of this document.
The contact person is Kim Woodruff, [email protected]
Their address is: Nuffield Foundation, 28 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JS (near the Goodge Street tube stop)
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/
http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/planned_ia/docs/2013_eac_003_opening_up_education_en.pdf (pre-plan about the “Opening Up Education”)
http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/
http://www.mellon.org/ http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays/presidents-essays/priorities-for-the-scholarly-communications-program priorities http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/scit Letters of inquiry should be brief, extending no more than three pages. The letter should describe: the project for which you are seeking funding; its scope, objectives, and significance; why you require external funding and what benefits you would achieve from such funding; the specific activities for which funding is being requested; and how much funding is needed.
«(1) to support libraries and archives in their efforts to preserve and provide access to materials of broad cultural and scholarly significance; (2) to assist scholars in the development of specialized resources that promise to open or advance fields of study in the humanities and humanistic social sciences; and (3) to strengthen the publication of humanistic scholarship and its dissemination to the widest possible audience.»
Accordingly, I’m not sure whether mathematics is really something they can support – we could send them a VERY short email asking about this. Some of their stuff about cultural and scholarly work would be relevant (assuming they think of mathematics as “cultural”, which I do!).
http://www.brynmawr.edu/math/people/melvin/ a mathematician whos work was supported by the Mellon foundation (potentially worth an email to ask him about this)
Other (somewhat related) precedent: https://www.wm.edu/as/charlescenter/mellon/index.php
http://arXiv.org I sent a note to simeon warner
Note from Gowers: http://episciences.org/ is setting up a platform for running overlay journals
http://www.bechtel.com/foundation.html I sent them a quick query via their contact form, haven’t heard back
http://www.rosenbaum-foundation.org/ Generally interested in mathematics, they seem to require letters of interest be sent to Madge Rosenbaum Goldman, 764 Mt. Pleasant Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 I think we should put together a 2-to-3 page letter to send to them.
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/ntf/ Looks like they mainly do conference funding