[Python-3000] Python 3000 and the Google Summer of Code

[Neal Norwitz]

On 4/17/06, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> Your next post answered my question as to mentor eligibility: known of by
> you or two references therefrom.  But back to project eligibility: how far
> beyond direct implementation-related projects?  How about progammer support
> like pylint/pychecker?  Or library extensions like numpy/scipy?  Or
> webframeworks?  Is there a Google page I should read for their views, as
> well as getting yours (and Guido's) as to what PSF wants to sponser?  I
> don't want to mislead people.

Speaking for myself (not PSF and not Google), I think all of those
above are fine.  If it generally helps python, it's a good thing.  A
new module for python, that might never go in the stdlib is fine.  For
example, the PSF funded a grant to enhance PySNMP.  This module is
unlikely to ever be included in the stdlib, but it's still beneficial
to have.  I think it was appropriate to fund and would have been fine
as an SoC project too.

Your questions are best answered from Google's site (I don't know the answers):

http://code.google.com/soc/

> I am curious about last year's results for PSF projects: how many of how
> many actually finished enough to collect the full stipend?  Is there a
> report that I never saw?

Here's a write up about last year's projects:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2005

Payment was all or nothing.  I thought we had something like 18
projects, there are 14 up on the page above.  I don't really know
anything about last year though.  Perhaps David Ascher knows, I think
he may have been in charge of SoC last year from the PSFs side.  I
don't know if David is on this list, but I copied him.

n