Hello all , 

I was reviewing the open projects and issues in this organisation that I 
can contribute to. I was interested to know whether the projects under the 
list - https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas will be considered 
for evaluation for upcoming GSOC .


Regards,


Akash Saha 

On Monday, 17 November 2025 at 10:20:03 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In the past, it seemed our approach was to try to take the best students 
> regardless of what they proposed (whether their own idea or one extracted 
> from our list). We would then accept as many as we could mentor. But this 
> approach is often awkward, or has gotten more so over the years, because it 
> doesn't align with the mentorship resources (quantity and desire).
>
> I would support an approach where we first start with a number of mentors, 
> then determine the number of projects, and those mentors draft the N ideas 
> for that year that can be applied for. We don't even have to consider any 
> other ideas.
>
> It is also true that we get more applicants for some projects than others. 
> If we take the best applicant for that project, then we aren't necessarily 
> taking the best applications from the whole pool. Should we accept the best 
> applicants and assign them the projects or select the best per project?
>
> The LLM written proposals will grow again. I'm not sure what should be 
> done about that.
>
> Jason
> moorepants.info
> +01 530-601-9791 <(530)%20601-9791>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are at the time of year where it seems that candidates are
>> interested in GSOC. Every year the same list of projects is rolled
>> over and I think that needs to change. Most of the ideas in the list
>> are effectively impossible for GSOC or don't have anyone who would
>> mentor them. Most of the ideas are not described in enough up to date
>> detail to be implementable even if they are otherwise suitable.
>>
>> This year we should not carry over any project ideas from previous
>> years and make a completely new GSOC ideas page with only ideas that
>> are fresh this year or that someone confirmed that they would at least
>> potentially be interested in supervising this year. Each idea should
>> clearly describe the current state and what the most immediate work to
>> be done is.
>>
>> Oscar
>>
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