On Thursday, 18 April 2013 17:26:13 UTC+8, Damian Skrodzki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Damian Skrodzki and I study at Gdańsk University of Technology. I > don't know Clojure yet - I have academic experiance with Lisp. I sow the > lecture about Clojure at 33rd Degree conference in Warsaw and I really > liked it. I really would like to participate in Clojure development. > > I feel good at Math and I saw there are a few projects related to Math > library to be done. Which projects from: > Algebraic Expressions > Incanter support > API Contract Validation > are most important to you? And do think that there is a chance for me to > qualify for it having no experience in Clojure in I would be engaged > enough? This experience is listed as a requirement. Which one you would > suggest me to look through deeper if there are any real chances? >
Hi Damian, I proposed these projects originally. I think the Incanter support is probably the most immediately valuable to the community: it would bring core.matrix multi-dimensional array capabilities to Incanter and also enable Incanter to be used as a visualisation / statistical front-end to core.matrix work. The algebraic expressions are interesting though more of a "blue sky" research project. The API contract validation would be very useful in the long term to ensure a robust code base, but is probably a lower priority right now - I suggested it because someone might have a passion / specialism in TDD / contract based programming and for them it would be a great project. Can't really say what is needed to make a successful GSoC proposal as I haven't been through the process before. However I personally think that some demonstrated Clojure ability / community engagement would be important: the aim is to contribute meaningfully to an open source project, and it is hard to do that if you are struggling to pick up the language basics. It might be a good idea to contribute some patches / tests to learn the language and demonstrate your ability to the community? Also, discussions on the core.matrix topics specifically are probably better directed to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/numerical-clojure -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
