On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 03:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 11:27 am, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... but I think the canvas back end has a > > decent chance of being funded. > > Yes, but first of all, this week until the 13th we need to have a > proposal for Sage as a mentor group. Therefore it should focus on such > tasks that have no maths background and average IT students are able > to solve them. Later on, iff Sage is selected as a mentor group and > students submit proposals for different tasks (integration, etc.) it > could be discussed. If Sage is not selected, nothing will happen :\ > So, I hope some mentors pop up and we manage to write a decent > proposal in the next few days! There is enough non-maths stuff that > needs to be done. +1 We need mentors to have a decent proposal. So please volunteer if you can supervise a student during the summer. Note that nobody agreed to be a mentor so far. The GSoC FAQ says that on average mentors need to spend about 5 hours per week for this. For each mentor, the organization gets $500, and the mentor gets a t-shirt. I guess the organization to receive the said $500 would be the Sage foundation, though maybe there are options to pay the mentors directly. Especially people who are familiar with the tasks already mentioned in this thread, and on the ideas page http://wiki.sagemath.org/gsoc09 should volunteer. Talking about a decent proposal... I've added some answers to the application at http://wiki.sagemath.org/gsoc09_application The first question still has the text Harald copied from the web site. I plan to edit this to contain a better (and slightly longer) introduction to Sage and the community, mentioning the # of downloads, contributors, etc. The question about the application template is still unanswered. If you have any ideas of questions to ask students who apply, please add them here, or even better, add them to the wiki. I wrote most of the answers on and off during the day, and some in the evening now. It would be great if some people could go through it and add corrections, write comments, or rewrite it all. We should also work on the ideas list. We can list the ideas in the wiki page initially, but it would be good to turn these into projects for the application. I suggest putting a few of the ideas together, such as refactoring the notebook code and adding an authentication framework, then the list of possible mentors with the project. We can also add some motivating text for the tasks, and possible milestones. BTW, there is no "first come first serve" policy for applications. I think this was an idea William came up with to make me do all this work today and not put it off till the end of the week. :) Special thanks to Harald for helping out with the questions and ideas. With the suggested additions of plotting improvements (maybe including the matplotlib canvas, if they are not applying as an organization), javascript equation editor, and maybe pynac (ginac is not applying, afaik), and of course commitments from our first rate sage developer mentors, we'll have a great application. That's all for now... I'm going to sleep. :) Cheers, Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
