On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
Thanks Ralf,
Note that we have always done a combined numpy/scipy ideas page and
submission. For really good students numpy may be the right challenge, but in general scipy is easier to get started on.
yup -- good idea. Is there a page ready to go, or do we need to get one up? (I don't even know where to put it...)
This is last year's page: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2015-project-ideas Some ideas have been worked on, others are still relevant. Let's copy this page to -2016- and start editing it and adding new ideas. I'll start right now actually.
Under the PSF umbrella has always worked very well, both in terms of communication quality and of getting the amount of slots we wanted, so yes.
hmm, looking here:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016#Sub-orgs
it seems it's time to get started. and I _think_ our ideas page can go on that Wiki.
Are you maybe interested in co-organizing or mentoring Chris? Updating the ideas page, proposal reviewing and interviewing students via video calls can be time-consuming, and mentoring definitely is, so the more the merrier.
I would love to help -- though I don't think I can commit to being a full-on mentor.
If we get a couple people to agree to mentor,
That's always the tricky part. We normally let people indicate whether they're interested in mentoring for specific project ideas on the ideas page.
then we can get ourselves setup up with the PSF. <https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion>
That's the easiest part, takes one email and one wiki page edit:) Ralf