I have added these proposals to the PSF's GSoC 2009 wiki page here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009
Feel free to add more ideas there. The PSF will do the work of applying to Google -- we can encourage prospective students and mentors to apply through the PSF. Cheers, Mike John Hunter wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu > <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>> wrote: > > I think that's a great project idea -- nice and contained with an > obvious goal. I'd be happy to help out with that, as I probably > know as > much about the new backend interfaces as anyone. > > I am also willing to mentor the project I volunteered for last > year (the > student dropped out in the eleventh hour). That was to extract > the math > expression rendering engine out as a separate project. It's hairier > than it sounds, because it requires separating out the freetype > wrappers > as well, and parts of all the backends. But this is something the > Sympy > and Sage folks were very interested in last year as well. > > > That's great Michael -- can you take the lead to get us registered by > the March 13th deadline? I'm able to spend some time helping mentor > as well. > > JDH > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users