Another thing that would help is if you all could fire up your IRC clients when you are at your computer and idle on #sympy. Quite a few people come to that channel for information about GSoC, but often no one is around to answer their questions.
Aaron Meurer On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, if you are planning on making significant changes to one > of the pages on the wiki, and you have push access to sympy, I should > note that you can clone the wiki repo with git (see > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/_access), edit the files locally, > and push them up. This is also a good idea if you suspect someone > else might be editing the wiki at the same time, because the web > interface doesn't do anything about merge conflicts, but with git, you > just get a regular git merge. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Stefan Krastanov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have added myself to the "willing to mentor" paragraph. I the next >> week I will try to help with the cleanup/update of the templates. >> >> On 12 February 2013 00:02, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So Google has announced Google Summer of Code 2013. Here's the >>> timeline: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012. >>> We need to have our org application and ideas page ready by March 9, >>> which is sooner than it sounds. >>> >>> The ideas page is at >>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Ideas, the org >>> application is at >>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Organization-Application, >>> and the student application template is at >>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Application-Template. >>> So far, they are just copies of last year's stuff. So we need to go >>> through the ideas page and remove any ideas that are no longer >>> relevant, and also add some new ones. If someone wants to attempt an >>> organizational cleanup of the page as well, that would be great too. >>> We also need to go through the organization application and student >>> template and update stuff. We won't know the actual questions until >>> February 27 when the application period starts, but in the past they >>> have been almost exactly the same. Any help here is greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Now, to the main issue. Who is willing to mentor this year? If you >>> are willing, please add your name to the bottom of the ideas page. >>> It's OK if you are only able to mentor certain projects. Just note >>> that. Even if you are on the fence, add your name. The more potential >>> mentors we have, the better it looks to Google when they are reading >>> our application. When it comes down to it, you won't have to mentor >>> anybody unless you want to. >>> >>> If you've participated as a student before, I encourage you to >>> consider mentoring. You may also apply as a student again if you >>> want. >>> >>> To the people who helped review applications last year, are there any >>> changes you would like to see to the application template this year? I >>> know that there was a session at last year's mentor summit about this, >>> which Matthew, GIlbert, and Stefan attended. It would be great if you >>> guys could review the template with that session in mind. >>> >>> To anyone who is interested in applying to Google Summer of Code as a >>> student, I recommend you read through >>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Application-Template. >>> Then, introduce yourself on this list (if you haven't already), and >>> get started on fulfilling your patch requirement. You should also >>> start discussing what idea(s) you are are interested in. We look >>> forward to meeting you. >>> >>> Aaron Meurer >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "sympy" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
