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 >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTwk%3DY0H02agwu6CN1PEzzC_uNm%3DJ2a%2BBH1QBs1Tk3F%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/b7913f5c-c164-4487-b005-94158a9a8ecen%40googlegroups.com.
