On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:52 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 ten > slots from Google. The following projects have been accepted: > > Student (Project): Mentor > > - Akshay Narasimha (Improvements to the Geometry Module): Stefan Krastanov > > - Avichal Dayal (Series Expansion): Sergey Kirpichev, Stefan Krastanov > > - Harsh Gupta (Improving Equation Solvers): Matthew Rocklin, Sergey Kirpichev > > - Jim Crist (Linearization Routines for Equations of Motion): Oliver > Lee, Luke Peterson > > - Kundan Kumar (Implementation of system of ODEs and Improvement of ODEs > solving Engine): Sean Vig, Tim Lahey > > - Sachin Joglekar (sympy.vector module): Jason Moore > > - Soumya Dipta Biswas (Implementation of Propositional and First Order Logic > in SymPy): Aaron Meurer > > - Sudanshu Mishra (Introducing Optics module): Sean Vig, Ondřej Čertík > > - Sushant Hiray (Extending Elementary Functions in CSymPy): Ondřej Čertík > > - Thilina Rathnayake (Linear Algebra Module for CSymPy): Ondřej Čertík > > Additionally, the following proposal will be accepted through the PSF with > PyDy. > > - Tarun Gaba (PyDy Viz Improvements and Enhancements): Chris Dembia, Jason > Moore > > 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 Gitter), or else post minutes of your meeting in some public > channel, so that the whole community can see your progress too. > > As I suggested on the mailing list earlier this year, we may also want to try > doing Google+ hangouts this year. Face to face chats can be very effective. > And you can make the hangout public, so that people can watch it in real time, > and the video will be uploaded to YouTube so that people can watch it later as > well if they want. > > Another idea is to use Gitter custom channels. Be sure to make them public > and share the link if you do. > > Some of you have been assigned two mentors. They will both work to keep you > on track for different aspects of your proposal. If you have two mentors and > one is not available for something, or does not know the answer, you can ask > the other. > > 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, Blogger, or creating your own blog on GitHub pages. > If you are savvy enough to set it up, I recommend GitHub pages, but if you > aren't, both Wordpress and Blogger are good enough. The only requirement is > that it has an RSS feed, so we can put it on planet.sympy.org. I also > recommend that it have some kind of comments box, so that people can comment > on your work. Once you have set up your blog, send a pull request adding it > to https://github.com/sympy/planet.sympy.org/blob/master/planet.ini. > > Starting on the week of May 19 (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 throughout the summer on own blog at > http://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/. I invite other mentors who have blogs to > do the same. And I encourage all community members to follow and comment on > the student blogs, so you can see their progress.
Oops, I forgot to change this. My blog is now at http://asmeurer.github.io/blog/. I highly recommend using GitHub pages if you can, as moving from Wordpress or Blogger to GitHub pages later is a huge pain. But if you use GitHub pages from the start, it's easy to move, because you own all your content, and it's in some simple markup like markdown or RST that is easy to translate to another system. Aaron Meurer > > I would like to thank all the students who applied this year and everyone who > submitted a patch. 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 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/CAKgW%3D6JrEt_NS%2BFWo7ZDv44n0vdsSTRFaMdDoO-uD-SE1vvb2Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
