I should add for those of you who are interested to know more about these applications that you can find them on the wiki https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2015-Current-Applications.
Aaron Meurer On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:56 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 seven > students have been accepted to work on SymPy/CSymPy, and one student > has been accepted to work on PyDy. The following projects have been > accepted: > > Student (Project): Mentors > > - Abinash Meher (Ruby bindings to the CSymPy C++ symbolic library): > Ondřej Čertík > > - Amit Kumar (Improving Solvers : Extending Solveset): Harsh Gupta and Sean > Vig > > - Isuru Fernando (Make Sage use CSymPy as a symbolic engine): Ondřej Čertík > > - Sartaj Singh (Improving the series package and limits): Jim Crist > > - Shivam Vats (Fast Sparse Series Expansion): Thilina Rathnayake and > Ondřej Čertík > > - Sudhanshu Mishra (Improving assumptions in SymPy): Aaron Meurer and Tim > Lahey > > - Sumith (Implementing polynomial module in CSymPy): Sushant Hiray and > Ondřej Čertík > > Additionally, the following proposal will be accepted through the PSF with > PyDy. > > - Sahil Shekhawat (PyDy - Interactive Generation of System): Tarun > Gaba and Jason Moore > > Join me in congratulating these students on their acceptance. > > I'd like to thank the Python Software Foundation and the Ruby Science > Foundation for giving us the slots to accept these students under > their umbrella. > > 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. > > 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. Planet > SymPy is also aggregated on Twitter at > https://twitter.com/planetsympy. 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 25 (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 > https://asmeurer.github.io/blog/. 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. > > 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%3D6L_pRYm2MhfcXrT7QmS9CAFjHukAeO-Vz6OgbHJOOsr%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
