On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Can you clarify what you mean by "applications"? >> >> The way GSoC works is that students send applications and they are >> free to send it to any accepted organization. > > By "applications" I mean students applications. > >> Since SymPy is already under the NumFOCUS umbrella, how does NumFOCUS plan >> to award slots to their organizations? >> >> We are certainly interested now that we were not selected as a mentoring >> organization ourselves. > > I didn't discuss this with anyone yet since most of projects under NumFOCUS > umbrella tried to be mentoring organization by themselves. > > I would suggest that every project have one admin > and the admins meet this week to talk about it. > >> I understand that there is no Google mandate on how organizations divvy up >> their slots. I'm just curious how NumFOCUS plans to handle all of this. >> From my understanding, Raniere is part of Software Carpentry (which is >> fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS) and instead of applying to GSoC as Software >> Carpentry he decided and got permission to apply using the NumFOCUS name. > > Jason, you are correct. > >> For example, the materials are hosted under the SWC github account, not >> NumFOCUS's, > > This happens because of time constrains. > I would like to keep it this way for 2015 edition > but next year we will host it under NumFOCUS account > or a better place. > >> and the only ideas listed seem to be from Software Carpentry ( >> https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015). > > This was because all others projects under NumFOCUS > apply to be a mentoring organization. > I hope that we can change it having many projects from Sympy > and the others projects support by NumFOCUS. > >> Actually, I'm not sure what the >> two ecology related projects are and what NumFOCUS sub-org they belong to. > > They was proposed by Ethan White, a Software Carpentry member. > >> It would be nice to understand how things will work with NumFOCUS before we >> start sending students in that direction. >> >> That is totally up to NumFOCUS to decide. >> >> But who are the decision makers for GSoC at NumFOCUS? Aren't we part of >> NumFOCUS just like Rainere and Software Carpentry are? Btw, I understand >> that Raniere put together the application, did all the work, and ultimately >> won the game so maybe that means that we have no formal say. > > As said before, > will be great if I and people in charge of GSoC to SymPy could talk this week. > Thursday 10am EST?
Thanks for answering Jason's questions. 10am EST works, though I will only have about half an hour. Do you want to do G+ hangout? Ondrej -- 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/CADDwiVDb1aZCzBZZAB2APYLURbvG3Rc70HZGSZRu9dqD9wyRrg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
