I think SymPy fits this need. It only really requires git and Python to develop in (though depending on what you are doing, you may need other tools as well). And since it is written in Python, the deveopment turnover time is fast, meaning that you can get a lot done in a sprint.
Our issue tracker is at http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list and we have tagged some issues as "easy to fix" http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list?q=label:EasyToFix. Of course, we're also open to more ambitious contributions, like implementing new features. We also have a ton of documentation that could be written or improved, which requires little to no programming experience. Aaron Meurer On Jun 13, 2011, at 7:56 PM, David Shein wrote: > Greetings, > My name is Dave Shein, and I'm an Adjunct Faculty at Rochester Institute of > Technology. Along with Chris Tyler of Seneca College, we are hosting a week > long POSSE boot-camp at the RIT campus from June 20th -24th. POSSE, sponsored > by Red Hat, is a week long educational hand-on seminar in open source > process, collaboration, and education. The central purpose of POSSE is to > increase awareness and opportunities for Open Source participation in the > university setting. All of POSSE participants are university staff or faculty > who will take what they learn in POSSE and use that knowledge in CS and > related curricula, to spread the word about open source collaboration, and to > provide increased educational opportunities for CS related students. Our > first two days are spent acclimating our participants to tools and resources > of the open source community, but on the third and fourth day of POSSE we > will have our participants do a code-sprint. We are looking for opportunities > in existing open source projects which have a quick learning curve and setup > time for folks with a CS background but who in most cases will not have a > great depth of experience working in open source languages. We are > particularly interested in having our participants hack on Fedora based > projects. The students will have a Fedora F14 & F15/Linux work environment > setup as part of their initial orientation, and we are looking for projects > that will not have lengthy setup beyond the participants' initial setup. > We obtained information about your open source project through OpenHatch, and > would like to know if your project would have elements that would be amenable > to our sprint. There will be approximately fifteen to twenty participants > working on the sprint in teams of 3 to 5 people each, of whom most are > coders. IN ADDITION we are also looking for a project participation > opportunity for 3 to 4 non-coders, possibly in the form of testing, > copywriting, or editing work. Ideally we would also like to coordinate with a > point-person in your organization during the period of the sprint, a person > to whom participants could direct questions, perhaps via IRC in real time. > If this is of interest to you please contact me at your earliest convenience. > I hope that we can work together soon. > David Malcom Shein > Rochester Institute of Technology > IRC# ProfSheinRIT on freenode > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sympy/-/TQT7Mrjtcn8J. > 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. -- 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.
