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 this year. The following projects have been accepted:
Student (Project): Mentors Akash Vaish (Improving Probability and Random Processes): Francesco Bonazzi, Kalevi Suominen Ashish Kumar Gaurav (Completing RUBI Integrator): Abdullah Javed Nesar, Arihant Parsoya, Francesco Bonazzi Jashanpreet Singh (Create a Rich Beam Solving System): Arihant Parsoya, Jason Moore Nikhil Pappu (Autolev Parser (using ANTLR v4)): Ondřej Čertík, Jason Moore Ravicharan Nudurupati (Group Theory): Aaron Meurer, Valeriia Gladkova, Kalevi Suominen Sidhant Nagpal (Transforms, Convolution & Linear Recurrence Evaluation): Aaron Meurer, Kalevi Suominen Yathartha Anirudh Joshi (Solvers): Completing Solveset: Amit Kumar 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 mentors soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer about your project. You should meet with your mentors 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. Note that in many cases you may interact with some mentors as your primary mentors, and other mentors will be backup mentors. Please contact the backup mentors if you are not able to get ahold of your primary mentor(s). If you cannot get ahold of either, please let me and Ondřej Čertík ([email protected]) know immediately. I would like all of us to strongly encourage students 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. Please send a pull request with your blog RSS feed to https://github.com/sympy/planet-sympy. Starting on the week of May 14 (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 mentors or I will email you to remind you about it. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6L2sDAZh_aLg%3Dc%2Bc%2BGOcB9HsS323apkyWhcpy_tdot8Mw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
