I just noticed that I completely forgot to actually include the links to the proposals on the wiki. Here they are:
Sergiu Ivanov: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Sergiu-Ivanov:-Category-Theory-Module Guru Devanla: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Guru-Devanla:-Density-Operators-for-Quantum-Module Angadh Nanjangud: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Angadh-Nanjangud:-sympy.physics.mechanics Aledsandar Makelov: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Aleksandar-Makelov:-Group-theory Bharath M R: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Bharath-M-R:-Plotting-Module Stefan Krasanov: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Stefan-Krastanov:-Vector-Analysis These give an outline of what the students plan to implement this summer. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. As many of you may have noticed, Google has announced the > results for Google Summer of Code. I am proud to announce that we got six > slots from Google. The following projects have been accepted: > > (Project, Student, Mentor, Link to proposal on the wiki) > - Category Theory Module, Sergiu Ivanov, Tom Bachmann > - Density Operators for Quantum Module in sympy.physics.quantum, Guru > Devanla, Brian Granger (co-mentor Sean Vig) > - Enhancements to sympy.physics.mechanics, Angadh Nanjangud, Gilbert Gede > - Group Theory, Aleksandar Makelov, David Joyner (Aaron Meurer co-mentor) > - Implicit Plotting Module, Bharath M R, Aaron Meurer > - Vector Analysis, Stefan Krastanov, Matthew Rocklin > > Join me in congratulating these students on their acceptance. > > In case you don't know, Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays > students to write code for open source projects. SymPy was accepted as a > mentoring organization this year. The goal of the program is to help the > students learn new skills, in particular in our case: > > * contributing to opensource > * working with the community > * learn git, pull requests, reviews > * teach them how to review other's people patches > * do useful work for SymPy > * have fun, and encourage the students to stay around > > To all the students who are accepted, you should be receiving an email from > your mentor soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer > about your project. You should meet with your mentor about once a week during > the summer to go over your progress. You should either meet on a public > channel (like IRC), or else post minutes of your meeting in some public > channel, so that the whole community can see your progress too. > > Some of you may also be assigned a backup mentor or co-mentor. These people > will also help out in mentoring your project. If you have two mentors and one > is not available for something, or does not know the answer, you can ask your > co-mentor. > > I would like all of us to strongly encourage students this summer to submit > pull requests early and often. This will go a long ways towards making sure > that you don't end the summer with a ton of code written that never gets > merged. Students should help review pull requests by other students, so that > we don't get bogged down reviewing so much code. > > We also require that all students keep a weekly blog of their work over the > summer. If you don't already have a blog, you should start one. I recommend > using either Wordpress or Blogger (I personally use and prefer Wordpress > because it has a cleaner interface and lets you do $latex math$, but I > recommend you test out both). You can also use some other service too if you > like. The only requirement is that it has an RSS feed, so we can put it on > planet.sympy.org. Once you have set up your blog, send me the url so I can > add it there. > > Starting on the week of May 21 (when the GSoC period officially begins), We > will expect you to have at least one blog post a week, describing your > progress for that week, or something interesting about your project. If you > don't have a post by the beginning of the day on Saturday, your mentor or I > will email you to remind you about it. > > I will also blog once a week on my own blog at > http://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/ either on my work on the Risch Algorithm > or on the progress of our GSoC students. I invite other mentors who have > blogs to do the same. And I encourage all community members to follow the > student blogs, so you can see their progress. > > I would like to thank all the students who applied this year and everyone who > submitted a patch. We received way more feedback this year than we ever have > before. I would also like to thank all the mentors for helping review patches > and proposals. > > This summer is looking to be another very productive one for SymPy, and I look > forward to it! > > Aaron Meurer -- 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.
