On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi all,
It is the time of the year for Google Summer of Code applications. If we want to participate with Numpy and/or Scipy, we need two things: enough mentors and ideas for projects. If we get those, we'll apply under the PSF umbrella. They've outlined the timeline they're working by and guidelines at http://pyfound.blogspot.nl/2013/03/get-ready-for-google-summer-of-code.html.
We should be able to come up with some interesting project ideas I'd think, let's put those at http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas. Preferably with enough detail to be understandable for people new to the projects and a proposed mentor.
We need at least 3 people willing to mentor a student. Ideally we'd have enough mentors this week, so we can apply to the PSF on time. If you're willing to be a mentor, please send me the following: name, email address, phone nr, and what you're interested in mentoring. If you have time constaints and have doubts about being able to be a primary mentor, being a backup mentor would also be helpful.
So far we've only got one primary mentor (thanks Chuck!), most core devs do not seem to have the bandwidth this year. If there are other people interested in mentoring please let me know. If not, then it looks like we're not participating this year.
Hi all, an update on GSoC'13. We do have enough mentoring power after all; NumPy/SciPy is now registered as a participating project on the PSF page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2013 Prospective students: please have a look at http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/Expectations and at http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas. In particular note that we require you to make one pull request to NumPy/SciPy which has to be merged *before* the application deadline (May 3). So please start thinking about that, and start a discussion on your project idea on this list. Cheers, Ralf