[SciPy-Dev] welcome Xingyu and Tirth as GSoC students!

[Warren Weckesser]

On 5/17/21, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Google just announced the accepted GSoC students for this year.
> Congratulations to Xingyu Liu and Tirth Patel!
>
> Xingyu's project is titled "Improve performance through the use of
> Pythran", her project summary can be found at
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5526713011798016. The mentors
> are Serge Guelton and myself.
>
> Tirth's project is titled "Integrate library UNU.RAN into scipy.stats", his
> project summary can be found at
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5912428874825728. The mentors
> are Christoph Baumgarten and Nicholas McKibben.
>
> Both projects are exciting, and I'm looking forward to Tirth and Xingyu's
> work and interaction with the community.
>
> From today till June 7th is "community bonding period". Xingyu and Tirth
> have already been contributing for a little while, but please do give them
> a hand or say hi! That we had the first community meeting in a long time
> today and plan to have regular community calls going forward is also nice,
> should help with the bonding:)
>
> For the full GSoC timeline, please see
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline.
>
> There are also a number of other students who worked hard on their
> proposals, and we had more students we wished we could have accepted if we
> had had more slots. Thanks to those students for all that hard work and
> creativity! I hope that you are still interested in contributing to SciPy.
> And for some of you, there is hopefully a chance to participate next year.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

This is great news.  Congratulations Xingyu and Tirth!

Warren