On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  Hi,
>  >
>  >  If you're a student and interested in working on the Sage notebook all
>  >  summer,  there is now a link from
>  >
>  >    http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
>  >
>  >  to a Sage Notebook Google Summer of Code project, which -- if you're a
>  >  student -- you could apply
>  >  for soon, if possible.   I've been selected as a GSoC mentor for the
>  >  Python Software foundation,
>  >  so could mentor such a project.
>
>  That'd be a very interesting and very useful project.
>
>  Also - would releasing the notebook separately from Sage make sense?

Yes.

>  That could (imho should be) one of the tasks for the project. Because
>  you will have to explain in the application, why this is useful to the
>  Python community and to PSF. Also it could maybe be used in the
>  ipython1.

The main obstruction right now is licensing (which is serious)
and not invented here.

>  PSF made clear, that they will support projects, that are
>  clearly beneficial to the Python community, but that they will not
>  (much) support projects, that just happen to be written in Python.
>
>  If you want me to proof read the application before sending it, let me
>  know. The deadline is March 31.

Not a single student has responded to my email or expressed interest in this
project, unfortunately.  So unfortunately, I very much doubt there will
even be any applications for you to proof read. :-(

William

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
URLs: http://www.sagemath.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to