It looks good. I've made some edits cleaning up some stuff and correcting things. You've got a tendency to write extra words in your sentences that don't add to the content, so I've trimmed some stuff down a bit. I've got a feeling Google might even want us to trim it down more, as they don't want it too long. I edited it on my computer, and also rewrapped some of the text, so if you are looking at the diff, you might want to use the git version and use git diff --color-words.
I'll wait a bit to give the students and mentors a chance to check on what is written for their own projects, and also so that we hopefully will have all the reports written. I especially hope that someone can look over what is written for Angadh, Guru, and Stefan. I've CCed the relevant people I put my name at the bottom, as these things are usually written by the org admin for the organization, but I also added "SymPy community," since most of it was written by you guys. By the way, if someone wants to add Wikipedia links for some of the key technical terms, that might be helpful. Aaron Meurer On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Sergiu Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:34:14AM -0500, David Joyner wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Sergiu Ivanov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I have just finished the beta-draft of our GSoC-2012 blog post: >> > >> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Blog-Post >> > >> > I invite everyone to take a look at this text and to add or correct >> > things at will. I didn't really have the possibility to follow the >> >> >> Regarding Aleksandar Makelov's project, I would like some way of >> acknowledging the huge amount of work Chris Smith did. I noted 2 threads >> on merging A.M.'s code into sympy that each had 70+ emails. Also, >> "pernici" helped a lot (and I apologize for forgetting his real name), >> as did several others. > > I'm not sure how including such information is compatible with the > overall image of a GSoC organisation blog post. The point of the > post, as I see it, is to put forward the contributions of the > students, the new members of the community, while keeping the huge > help of mentors in mind, but not necessarily on paper. If we state > that certain community members helped Aleksandar a lot, it may look > like he was the only student to require much support. On the other > hand, making a similar statement in the presentation of every student > will feel redundant. My final argument is that one does non see such > mentions in the 2011 blog post [0]. > > I do not insist on this position, however, and if there is going to be > another person supporting your opinion, I will add the necessary > phrases to the text. > > Sergiu > > [0] http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2011/12/students-add-to-sympy.html -- 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.
