On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Kirby Urner <kurner@oreillyschool.com> wrote:

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We're on the same page as the Mathematica people here, and I don't think we should worry about any winner-take-all, king-of-the-hill story here.  IPython Notebook has a Mathematica flavor and that's fine, so does Sage.  We're in a synergy relationship.

That's especially true in the space of my workplace, where a lot of the brain cycles have been committed to Hilbert, software that brings in Mathematica over the server to a browser-based client.  Others of us teach Python and other executable notations.  Per your integrating vision, it's all one domain.

http://www.makingmath.com/  (same group as O'Reilly School)

Here's a post worth linking to right at this juncture as it gives a lot of the history of the O'Reilly School endeavor. 

Written by the spouse, Trish, of the founder, Scott Gray:

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2013/02/with-respect-to-osts-executive-director.html

Scott's transformative trip to Russia is talked more about here:

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/05/the-story-of-the-oreilly-school-of-technology-part-2.html

That's somewhat where my slide show comes in, as I mentioned saying our company is based in Sebastopol **, followed by a pregnant pause before I say "California".

Kirby

 ** Sevastopol (pron.: /ˌsɛvəˈstoʊpəl/ or /səˈvæstəpoʊl/; previously Sebastopol; Ukrainian and Russian: Севасто́поль; Crimean Tatar: Aqyar) is one of two cities with special status in Ukraine (the other being the capital, Kiev), located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 (2001).[1] Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine[dubious – discuss], after the Port of Odessa.  [Wikipedia]

http://ua.pycon.org/