Congratulations! to all the accepted students. To everyone else, keep the spirit up and continue contributing, your efforts will be paid off sooner or later.
Cheers! Yathartha Joshi On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 11:42:01 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 10 students have > been accepted to work on SymPy this year. The following projects have been > accepted: > > Student (Project): Mentors > > Ankit Pandey (Extending Codegen): Ondřej Čertík and Aaron Meurer > > Arighna Chakrabarty (Improving Series Expansions): Sartaj Singh > > Divyanshu Thakur (Group Theory): Kalevi Suominen > > Ishan Joshi (Extending continuum mechanics module): Jashan > > Gagandeep Singh (Enhancement of Statistics Module): Francesco Bonazzi > and Sidhant Nagpal > > Ishan Joshi (Continuum Mechanics: Creating a Rich Beam Solver and > Extending continuum mechanics module): Jashanpreet Singh and Yathartha > Joshi > > Jogi Miglani (Solvers: Extending solveset): Amit Kumar, Shekhar Rajak, > and Yathartha Joshi > > Nikhil Maan (Creating a C and Fortran Parser for SymPy) Ondřej Čertík > and Aaron Meurer > > Ritesh Kumar (Probability: Compound Distributions, Stochastic > Processes and Random Matrices): Francesco Bonazzi and Sidhant Nagpal > > Shubham Kumar Jha (Improving Assumptions): Aaron Meurer and Kalevi > Suominen > > Zhiqi KANG (Linear Algebra: Tensor core): Francesco Bonazzi and Sartaj > Singh > > 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 27 (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/0f7b5566-7322-49ea-bf75-9c483150ea23%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
