Hi all, Just a heads up to everyone who's interested in these projects: tomorrow is the official start of the coding period. Abraham and Nikolay have already been sending PRs for their projects (so they're ahead!): https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pulls/aeklant https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pulls/nmayorov The momentum should be further increasing soon. Cheers, Ralf On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Google has just announced which students got accepted for this year's GSoC. For Scipy these are: - Nikolay Mayorov, "Improve nonlinear least squares minimization functionality in SciPy" mentors: Chuck & Evgeni - Abraham Escalante, "SciPy: scipy.stats improvements" mentor: Ralf (Evgeni is backup mentor)
Furthermore, this proposal was accepted for Scikit-image: - Aman Singh, "Scikit-Image: rewriting scipy.ndimage to cython" mentors: Jaime, Ralf & the scikit-image devs
Congratulations to all of you!
We had a lot of interest this year, which is great to see. GSoC applications are competitive, and unfortunately there are students who didn't make it. To those students I would say: please stay involved, and you're very welcome to apply again next year!
Today is also the start of the "community bonding period", where the students aren't yet expected to start working on their project but do get time to further figure out how things work, interact with the community and ensure that they can hit the ground running on day 1 of the coding period: http://googlesummerofcode.blogspot.nl/2007/04/so-what-is-this-community-bond....
It looks like it'll be an interesting and productive summer!
Cheers, Ralf
P.S. all proposals are linked on https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas#student-applications-... for who's interested in the details.
P.P.S. some students have asked to get some feedback about why they were/weren't accepted, in order to learn from it for a next time. Until today we weren't allowed to say much, but now that Google has announced the results I'd be happy to give some feedback - please contact me in private if you want.