Hi, this is a call for project ideas for the upcoming Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [1] to be submitted under the umbrella of the lmonade project [2].
[1] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 [2] http://www.lmona.de For those completely new to the process, within the GSoC, Google supports students to work full time on an open source project for 3 months. The projects are guided by at least one mentor who is supposed to be in close contact with the student and provide help on technical matters throughout the summer. The first step in the GSoC is for an organization to compile a list of projects and mentors, which will be reviewed by Google to decide if we get funding or not. Projects should be within reach of students without much specialized background and doable in less than 3 months. A good rule of thumb is that the mentor should be able to complete the project in at most a month. Last year, we applied with lmonade [3] as an umbrella organization [4] for projects from Flint, PolyBoRi, Singular and lmonade itself. [3] http://www.lmona.de [4] http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc Our application was not accepted, but we were able to propose most of the projects under the Sage umbrella [5]. [5] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/sage Especially the projects proposed for Flint were very popular with the students and they received many applications. In the end, one of the 3 slots given to Sage by Google went to Lina Kulakova [6]. The DFG priority program Algorithmic and Experimental Methods in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory [7] also financed Andrés Goens, a student from Aachen, to work on his GSoC proposal [8]. [6] http://lina-kulakova.blogspot.de/ [7] http://www.computeralgebra.de/ [8] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/goens/1 If you have any ideas for projects and/or you would like to mentor students for the GSoC, please reply to this message. I will be updating the lmonade wiki pages [9] with project and mentor information during the next week, as the application deadline for organizations is this Friday. [9] http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc Here is the full time table: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 More information can be found in the Mentor Guide [10] and the FAQ [11]. [10] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/what-makes-a-good-mentor/ [11] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page Cheers, Burcin -- Burcin Erocal http://erocal.org/burcin | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
