[Axiom-developer] bounties

[Page, Bill]

I really love this "bounty" idea that seems to have been started
by Canonical

  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties

in relation to the Ubuntu linux project, but it seems to be
rapidly spreading to other areas.

The idea is apparently to use donated (as well as some
corporate sponsor) funds to pay relatively small incentives
(but which carrying a *big* emotional multiplier of recognition
for people who have been doing voluntary open-source programming,
some extraordinary work that has remained quite unrecognized
of several years).

So the preview extension for ZWiki was paid such a bounty

  http://zwiki.org/933BountyForEditPreviewMode

That's great!

I would really like to see this idea extended to our little
realm of computer algebra systems.

Regards,
Bill Page.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McElrath [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:33 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden; Page, Bill; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Wikis


Page, Bill address@hidden wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:37 PM Bob McElrath wrote: 
> >
> > ...
> >> http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ZWiki?highlight=%28zwiki%29
> >
> > I have updated this page with more accurate information.
> > For instance, zwiki now has a preview button, and actually
> > supports the MoinMoin input syntax, if you prefer that.
> 
> Yes, I want that preview button NOW on MathAction! Some
> way to test and see what you modifications look like before
> committing them to the Wiki and emailing them to all
> subscribers would be a great improvement. How disruptive
> will it be, do you think, to upgrade ZWiki for this
> enhancement?

I don't think it will be very disruptive at all.

Most of the recent zwiki work has been in internationalization
issues.

But, I've not tried the latest latexwiki with the latest
zwiki.  I'm a version behind.  I've been working on the zwiki
modifications...

So the next latexwiki release will extend my zwiki work, and
be a total rewrite of the page-rendering part.  (Believe it
or not this is quite easy...but I haven't done it yet)