Hi everyone,
I just found out about GSoC several days ago and it immediately struck me as being amazing. I have been trying to get involved in the open source community for a while now, but haven't been able to "find the time". I am currently in a PhD program working on theoretical physics (string theory), but have been doing quite a lot of tinkering with computer science in general lately and it has been really fascinating. GSoC seems like the exact type of thing to push me and keep me on track to start contributing seriously to open source projects and get my hands dirty with "real" coding. I immediately jumped on the SymPy page and started playing around with the packages. It's a little overwhelming how much is being developed simultaneously, but I am getting a feel for some of the interesting features. I know it is a long shot to get approved for the GSoC, since I see most people have started working on proposals so early on, but I am still going to try and if it doesn't work I will at least have learned enough to start working on something interesting even without the funding (it would help though, since I will be able to devote more time to it over the summer). I wanted to get some feedback about my ideas, which I realize might not happen by the deadline (24ish hours left), but even so I would appreciate it. I am trying to have a decent proposal by then, which might not be very concrete (more of a conceptual plan) and hoping to have several days after the melange deadline to develop it fully once I hear from you. I am not sure how the review process works, but I would appreciate some feedback from the mentors if you would be willing to consider a proposal modified after the official deadline, since I see there is a period of several weeks of review. That is so I know if I should slave away on it the days after the deadline, or if there's no point. I am also trying to fix an issue and submit a pull request by the deadline, which is not going too well since I have started looking at SymPy only for the past several days. Fingers crossed though. Anyways I just uploaded a wiki page with my current general ideas (nothing specific yet, but I have one more day). Any feedback or references to discussions surrounding the topics I am looking at would be greatly appreciated. I have been digging through the doc files and the mailing list, but someone with experience might be able to point me to something I have not discovered yet. Thank you in advance for any help. This looks like a great community and I look forward to talking with you more and hopefully contributing. Peter Petrov -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/e3f6b945-a91e-41d2-bda9-548eaaae449c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
