Congratulations everyone! On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9:53:24 PM UTC+5:30, Aaron Meurer 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 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] <javascript:>) > 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 >
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