On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
It's that time of year again, we should think about GSoC participation. For SciPy participating in previous years has definitely been worth it.
Here is the ideas page from last year: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2016-project-ideas (not a whole lot to reuse).
New ideas very welcome (ideally with mentor attached ...).
Who is interested and available to (co-)mentor this year?
Thanks for starting it Ralf! I might have some bandwidth this summer to co-mentor. A few random ideas: 1. scipy.diff is still a nice one IMO. The focus can be on moving `approx_derivative` to be public facing. https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6026 2. B-splines (again!). https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6730 and https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6710 list possible subprojects of ranging difficulty. This would require a student to be able to read literature though. Alternatively, there's rational interpolation, https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6929 and Pauli's PR for barycentric interpolation. 3. hypergeometric functions would be great, but this might be too difficult. Josh, Nikolay, Ted --- you guys looked at this at some point; any comments? 4. Testing: A relatively easy task could be to enable a move away from nose to pytest, for both scipy and numpy. Ideally as a result the test suites can be run with either of those with all the bells and whistles, with fast/slow/xslow tests, skipifs and knownfailures. Cheers, Evgeni