On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 2/7/12 9:48 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Does anybody want to help put together a GSoC application for Sage for >> 2012? >> >> http://code.google.com/soc/ >> >> The application deadline is March 9. >> >> So far, I think we've applied 5 times to have Sage as a mentoring >> organizing, and been denied every time. I think there is no feedback >> about why we are denied (maybe they think we already have too much NSF >> funding?). Also, other similar projects such as R, Sympy, PlanetMath, >> etc., have often been accepted as mentoring organizations. However, >> I don't think being denied every year is a reason to stop trying, >> because (1) our project is better than many of the projects Google >> chooses (they are just making a mistake by not choosing us), and (2) >> even if they don't choose us, we can propose our project ideas to >> other mentoring organizations. Regarding (2) though, it can be >> frustrating -- e.g., I felt we had an excellent proposal for a >> mentoring organization one of the years Sage was denied, and the >> organization decided against funding it because the developers didn't >> know us personally; their "no" was not based on weaknesses of the >> project itself, which I found frustrating. So it's best if we are a >> mentoring organization. > > > So are you saying we shouldn't, for example, submit under the Python > Software Foundation umbrella?
If we come up with good projects that would make sense for PSF *and* are denied as a mentoring organization, then we should summit there. In my remark above, the mentoring org was not PSF. > I'd be willing to mentor, for example, a notebook project, since that's what > I'll be working on most of the summer. I'll already have several students > hopefully working with me on the notebook, or graphics (webgl, here we come > :), etc. Excellent. I am also willing to mentor a project on the notebook. Or something on implementing mathematical algorithms. > > Jason > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
