What would you highlight in a talk about octave

[Søren Hauberg]

søn, 01 03 2009 kl. 14:47 +0100, skrev Troels Kofoed Jacobsen:
> Currently I'm planning to talk about:
> - Compatibility with Matlab's .m-file format.

We're almost 100% compatible here.

> - Compatibility with Matlab mex files. (How compatible is Octave curently)

Very compatible. Then only issues I've ever come across are issues
related to GCC not being compatible with MSVC. This means a lot of MEX
code doesn't run on Linux (but, hey, that  code wouldn't be compilable
with Matlab on Linux either).

> - Octave-forge

This is a great way to get some of your research out to many users.

> - Free software!! This is a major plus on a university as it makes it possible 
> for the software engineers to look at the internals and learn.

Yes. I don't think you can really call something "science" unless it is
100% transparent.

> Any help is appreciated. The talk is aimed at one of the institutes and not 
> the students. They are all Matlab fans and I hope to open their eyes for the 
> many great possibilities of free software. I also plan to talk about 
> numpy/scipy/matplotlib and maybe mention scilab.

You should search the Octave mailing lists for "presentation". Not that
long ago someone else posted slides to the list.

> Best Regards
> Troels Kofoed Jacobsen

I'm curious. You name sounds Danish. Which University are you attending.
Personally, I'm a PhD student at Dept. of Computer Science at the
University of Copenhagen.

Søren