Hi Peter, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Peter Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your interest! I am glad you like the work that's being done. > > 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). It's never late to start! Definitely go for it. > > 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. The proposal in melange cannot be modified after the deadline, and we'll be judging by what's in there. However, I think you can comment in there during the review period based on our questions, so if we have any clarifying questions, we'll ask. > > 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 Do your best. Please ask if you have any questions. > 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 Here is the link: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2014-Application-Peter-Petrov-High-Energy-Physics-Ideas Let me read it. > 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. We are happy to see you around. Ondrej P.S. I never took a single CS class in my life either. -- 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/CADDwiVBS5-gi3mpKM4Cw%2BPMWi1_JvvrPr%3Dp0N9wKCCXEMbnRLw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
