# Progress report for Oxford
Ursula Martin and Dima Pasechnik
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## Financial and administrative setup
- Everything on rails: money arrived, first expenses done
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## Hiring
- Dima Pasechnik (50%)
- Start: immediate
- Duration: until end of project
- Has less other funding than expected year ago, only till Oct 2016
- Will appreciate and absorb unused funds from other ODK sites
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## Achievements I
- [D2.2: Community building: Impact of development workshops, dissemination and training activities, year 1](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/42)
- 3-hour presentation and Sagemath tutorial following
[GAP Software Carpentry Lesson](http://alex-konovalov.github.io/gap-lesson/) at
[1st CoDiMa Training School in Computational Discrete Mathematics](http://www.codima.ac.uk/school2015/)
- Oxford at the moment not featured in this WP - should be adjusted?
- [D3.9: Semantic-aware Sage interface to GAP](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/68)
- progress on tighter integration of Sage and GAP via libGAP
- preparing libGAP for GAP 4.8 update basically done.
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## Achievements II
- [D7.1: The flow of code and patches in open source projects](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/148)
- preparations (admin, etc) for an experiment to be held in Summer 2016
(10-12 students coding in a Sage summer project)
- D6.?, D7.?: Database of strongly regular graphs
- did a lot of Sage coding to implement constrictions cited in
[the database](http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/graphs/srg/srgtab.html)
- Completed and submitted [preprint](http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00181)
- interesting experiences with bugs and wrong constructions in the literature
(to be analysed in some way?)
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## Main upcoming tasks and deliverables (WP2)
- [D2.2: Community building: Impact of development workshops, dissemination and training activities, year 1](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/42)
- (NEW!) Creating [Sage Software Carpentry Lesson](http://alex-konovalov.github.io/sage-lesson/)
jointly with St.Andrews: other contributors most welcome!
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## Main upcoming tasks and deliverables (WP7)
- [D7.1: The flow of code and patches in open source projects](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/148)
- an experiment to be held in Summer 2016, 10-12 students coding in a Sage summer project, mostly on families of ellliptic curves (with Jennifer Balakrishnan) and probably also combinatorics (with Dima Pasechnik)
- [D7.5: Report on relevant research in sociology of mathematics and lessons for design of ODK VRE, part I](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/148)
- [annotated bibliography](https://github.com/dimpase/abib/raw/master/annotated_bibliography.pdf) ready
- behind the schedule due to external personnel/collaborators issues