On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
William Stein wrote:
Yes, I think there should be a Sage GSOC application. I'm OK with
being listed as a mentor. However, I won't write the actual
application, since I wrote three applications in a row that were all
turned down, so clearly I don't know how to write one.
What happened last year, by the way, was that several people wanted
to
write a GSOC application. However, nobody volunteered to mentor any
Sage-related GSOC projects at all. As a result, we did not even
apply
to have Sage as a mentoring organization.
Of course a huge portion of the community already has their hands full
with full time mentoring (grad students, undergrads, etc).
Perhaps one should consider what fits in best with the Google
business model.
How about extending Google's "calculator" to have enhanced
functionality like Wolfram Alpha? i.e replace the calculator with
Sage?
If they wanted this they would not be doing this as part of GSoC for
technical, legal, and pragmatic reasons.
GSoC is primarily a philanthropic and marketing program, and though it
of course provides direct benefits to them, they are often of the more
intangible sort.
- Robert
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