On 02/24/2015 05:41 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com
> <mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
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>     On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Ralf Gommers
>     <ralf.gommers@gmail.com <mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Hi all,
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>         It's time to start preparing for this year's Google Summer of
>         Code. There is actually one urgent thing to be done (before
>         19.00 UTC today), which is to get our ideas page in decent
>         shape. It doesn't have to be final, but there has to be enough
>         on there for the organizers to judge it. This page is here:
>         https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas. I'll be
>         reworking it and linking it from the PSF page today, but if you
>         already have new ideas please add them there. See
>         https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/OrgIdeasPageTemplate
>         for this year's template for adding a new idea.
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>     The ideas page is now in pretty good shape. More ideas are very
>     welcome though, especially easy or easy/intermediate ideas. Numpy
>     right now has zero easy ones and Scipy only one and a half.
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> We could add a benchmark project for numpy that would build off the work
> Pauli is doing in Scipy. That would be easy to intermediate I think, as
> the programming bits might be easy, but coming up with the benchmarks
> would be more difficult.
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we already have decent set of benchmarks in yaroslavs setup:
http://yarikoptic.github.io/numpy-vbench/