[Numpy-discussion] GSoC?

[Andy Ray Terrel]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> Apparetnly, NumFocus is applyign to be a GSoC Umbrella org as well:
>
> https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc
>
> Not sure why one might choose NumFocus vs PSF...
>
>
No reason to choose, you can get students from both orgs.


> -Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Bryan Van de Ven <bryanv at continuum.io>
> wrote:
>
>> [This is a complete tangent, and so I apologize in advance.]
>>
>> We are considering applying to GSOC for Bokeh. However, I have zero
>> experience with GSOC, but non-zero questions (e.g. go it alone, vs apply
>> through PSF... I think?) If anyone with experience from the mentoring
>> organization side of things wouldn't mind a quick chat (or a few emails) to
>> answer questions, share your experience, or offer advice, please drop me a
>> line directly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>> wrote:
>> > We might consider adding "improve duck typing for numpy arrays"
>> >
>> > care to elaborate on that one?
>> >
>> > I know it come up on here that it would be good to have some code in
>> numpy itself that made it easier to make array-like objects (I.e. do
>> indexing the same way) Is that what you mean?
>> >
>> > I was thinking particularly of improving the compatibility of numpy
>> functions (e.g., concatenate) with non-numpy array-like objects, but now
>> that you mention it utilities to make it easier to make array-like objects
>> could also be a good thing.
>> >
>> > In any case, I've now elaborated on my thought into a full project idea
>> on the Wiki:
>> >
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2016-project-ideas#improved-duck-typing-support-for-n-dimensional-arrays
>> >
>> > Arguably, this might be too difficult for most GSoC students -- the API
>> design questions here are quite contentious. But given that "Pythonic
>> dtypes" is up there as a GSoC proposal still it's in good company.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Stephan
>> >
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