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 <h2>Sage Days 25, Mumbai, India</h2>
-<p>
-For registration click <a href="/sage_days/registration/register/">here</a><br /><br />
-</p>
+<h4>What is 'Sage Days'?</h4>
+Sage Days is a confluence of present and prospective SAGE Users and Developers.
+It is an opportunity to come together to share ideas, brainstorm and hack on Sage.
+
+Sage Days 25 is the 25th version of Sage Days, and is being organized in Mumbai, India.
+In order to cater to an Indian audience and scenario, this version has been tweaked
+slightly. Sage Days 25 has beginner level tutorials, in addition to the usual talks and sprints,
+to help new users get started with Sage and help promote the use of Sage in India.
+<br/>
+<br/>
+<h4>What is Sage?</h4>
+Sage is a free, open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.
+It combines the power of numerous existing open-source packages into a common
+Python-based interface. It's mission is to create a "viable free open source alternative to
+Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab".
+
+Sage has tools for a broad range of mathematical areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus,
+Symbolic Math,  Plotting, Rings & Groups, Graph Theory, Number Theory and Cryptography.
+Essentially, "it can do anything from mapping a 12-dimensional object to calculating rainfall
+patterns under global warming" - as Science Daily puts it . Eager to get started? Start <a href="http://www.sagemath.org/tour.html">here</a>.
 
+Apart from being feature rich, it's usability is one of it's greatest strengths. Sage Notebook,
+a web-interface for all the math you'll ever want to do, is really the killer feature! As the Sage
+Marketing page says, "The SAGE GUI surely works on your computer box, because it just runs
+in Firefox!".  <a href="http://www.sagenb.org/">Try it Now!</a>
+<br/>
+<br/>
+<h4>Why should you attend?</h4>
+Sage Days 25 is being attended by the creator and lead developer of Sage, Prof. William Stein.
+It will also be attended by other developers of Sage. This would be a great opportunity to meet
+and interact with them!  
+
+The conference will be attended by a plethora of enthusiastic people from all over the country
+who use Sage or are interested in doing so. The conference will also see the presence of many
+mathematicians interested in software. Who knows, you may run into someone you'd want to
+collaborate with, for your future work!
+
+This event will be a great learning experience, if you are even remotely interested in math and software for it!
+<br/>
+<br/>
+<h4>When and Where?</h4>
+Venue: IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, India<br/>
+Dates: August 9-12, 2010<br/>
+<a href="http://wiki.sagemath.org/daysindia25/schedule">Tentative Schedule</a><br/>
+<a href="/sage_days/registration/register">Register Here</a>
+<br/>
+<br/>
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