[Numpy-discussion] Regarding taking up project ideas and GSoC 2015

Maniteja Nandana maniteja.modesty067 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 08:30:36 EST 2015


Hello everyone,

   I am a third year computer science undergraduate student, from BITS
Pilani, India. First of all, I have cross posted to both the mailing lists,
since there is a large overlap among contributors of the organisations.
Please do mention if there is any objection to do so. I am writing this
mail to introduce myself and to try to work on ideas that are hovering
around, if possible contribute as much as I can to the community. Apologies
in advance for the lengthy mail.

   I have been in active touch with numpy and scipy since December, though
I have been following the mailing lists and discussions for quite some
time. There is an ambience which makes me stick to the github page all the
time, just so that I keep learning new things and as well as help others if
possible. I think I have a working knowledge of git, though not at advanced
level, which I learned when working on small patches to numpy and scipy,
thanks for the help there. Though not greatly familiar with the structure
of modules in the library, I have a basic understanding of the codebase,
getting to know things as and when I have been digging at them, during
various issues.

   I have recently looked into the Scipy 1.0 Roadmap, todo wiki and Project
Ideas on github wiki. I was interested in the numpy idea for pythonic
dtypes and also in the scipy interpolation module, which were close to my
academic fields. I would also be eager to learn about the other ideas, but
as they are not a part of my curriculum, I would be needing to spend some
time to get an idea of them. Also there are various enhancement proposals,
mentioned in issues and PRs like the elliptical integrals of third kind,
which was brought up recently. It would be great to try to work on such
ideas, but need your guidance.

   I am a pursing a computer science major, and completed courses in linear
algebra, differential equations, computer graphics, probability and
statistics, machine learning, information retrieval and data mining. I have
beginner knowledge in image and signal processing.

   I was wondering if I could request the concerned people who work in
these fields to help beginners like me to look into and learn about the
concepts. It would be a really great learning experience to work under you
guys, and start as early as possible, irrespective of whether it is a
feasible SoC project, but only according to your convenience. I would be
more than pleased and happy to be a long term contributor.

   My github profile is https://github.com/maniteja123. It is just a mix of
my modest beginning to open source contribution and my academic projects.

   Waiting in anticipation for your response. Thanks for spending time to
read along my lengthy mail.

Cheers,
N.Maniteja
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