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If you’re like me and are curious about everything on your system, you might like this tip:

http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/1821/Fix–home-directory-after-installing-Leopard

It shows you how to remove the /home directory in your root on a Leopard machine.

Check out how “global” Sage development is here:

http://lite.sagemath.org/devmap.html

This was developed by Harald Schilly. If you’re a Sage developer and want to show up on the map, contact Harald Schilly.

You can find an updated binary distribution of Colloquy here:

http://yiqiang.org/Colloquy.zip

The only modification is that it is linked using -weak_library so that it uses Python 2.5 if it exists on your machine and falls back to Python 2.3 if you’re using 10.4. This is needed because Python plugins for Colloquy need the pyobjc bridge, which is in Python 2.5 (as shipped with Leopard), but not Python 2.3.

You can find a sample plugin here:

http://yiqiang.org/sage-devel-trac.py

To install it, drop it into

~/Library/Application Support/Colloquy/PlugIns/

and either restart Colloquy or type /reload plugins.

Today the Sage team received some very exciting and encouraging news.

Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Programs Manager at Google, was able to secure funding for several students to work on Sage this summer. The students and the projects are:

Gary Furnish (Rewrite and Vastly Optimize Symbolic Computation)
Mike Hansen (Combinatorial Species)
Robert Miller (Backtracking Algorithms and Permutation Groups)
Yi Qiang (Distributed Computing with DSage)

More details are in the original proposal:

http://yiqiang.org/google_proposal.pdf

Thanks again to Google and everyone who worked on making this happen!