On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. As some of you have already noticed, we have ben accepted into the > Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. > Although we have participated in the past under the umbrella of other >mentoring organizations like the Python Software Foundation > and Portland State University, this is the first time we have been accepted > as an organization. This is a very big step for SymPy.
And also the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2007. > I would like to thank everyone who helped with the application process. Indeed, this is terrific news. After 4 years of hard work, we got our chance now to be a standalone GSoC organization. That is a big honor (and also a big responsibility). Now it is up to us to make this the best GSoC summer ever. And I am sure we will do our best. > > In case you don't know, Google Summer of Code is a program run by Google > every year where they pay college students all around the world to write code > for open source projects. Each student has a mentor assigned to him/her, who > helps the student get started with interacting with open source (most > students who are accepted have never participated in open source before). > > So now that were are accepted, students are open to applications. The actual > application period opens on March 28, and closes on April 8 (see > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline). > > To students: > > If you are interested in applying, please write the to mailing list and > introduce yourself. The program is open to anyone worldwide who is 18 years > of age or older who is enrolled in a higher education institution (this > includes undergraduate and graduate). If you are interested in applying, > here is what you should do (if you have not already): > > - As I said above, write to the list and introduce yourself. You might also > join our IRC channel, which is #sympy on freenode. > > - Start thinking about what you want to apply to do. Our ideas page is at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2011-Ideas. However, we are open to > ideas that are not on that page. Anything that fits in a computer algebra > system would fit in SymPy. If you have an idea not on that page, please > discuss it on our mailing list, so we can see if it has not already be > implemented, and if it is fitting for SymPy and for a project. I recommend > you apply to do something that you are interested in personally. > > - We require for any student to be accepted that he/she submit at least one > patch to SymPy, which gets reviewed and pushed in. See > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list?can=2&q=label%3AEasyToFix for some > easy to fix issues that are a good place to start. Don't worry if you do not > know how to send in a patch or use git. We will help you (that is the whole > point of the program). Just ask here, on the issue page, or on IRC. > > - You should start thinking about your application. Our template is at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2011-Application-Template (it will > also soon be at our page on the Google site). If you like, you can start a > page on our wiki to write your proposal. If you do this, we will help you > edit it (though understand that we will not help you write it). Remember > that we want you to get accepted just as much as you do, so you can help > improve SymPy! > > To SymPy developers: > > - We need people who are willing to mentor students. If you are willing to > mentor, please add your name to the bottom of the page at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2011-ideas. > > - Please edit the ideas page to improve formatting and add new ideas. If you are a sympy developer, unless you want to apply as a student, definitely sign up as a mentor --- you are not committing yourself to anything, if you are busy, you can just hang around. But if you have some time to spare, we will need help with reviewing applications, and even if you don't plan to be mentoring a project during the summer, you can still help us with the selection process, and it would be greatly appreciated. Then of course we will also need mentors for the actual projects. Simply get in touch with Aaron or me, and send us your link_id to google melange. > > Good luck to all students who plan on applying! Good luck. If you have any questions, just ask. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
