Hi everyone. As many of you may have noticed, Google has announced the results for Google Summer of Code. I am proud to announce that 5 people have been accepted to work on SymPy this year. The following projects have been accepted:
Contributor, Project: Mentors Abhishek Patidar, "Improving Polynomial GCD". Mentors: Oscar Benjamin and Kalevi Suominen Anurag Surendra Bhat, "Improving And Expanding Functionalities Of SymPy's Control Module". Mentors: Smit Lunagariya, Jason Moore, and Nikhil Maan Ishan Pandhare, "Extending Continuum mechanics module: Introducing classes for Cables and Improving the Truss class". Mentors: Prakhar Saxena and Advait Pote Tilo Reneau-Cardoso, "Improving Relational Assumptions in SymPy’s New Assumptions". Mentors: Aaron Meurer and Francesco Bonazzi Tirthankar Mazumder, "Rewrite LaTeX Parser".Mentors: Francesco Bonazzi and Aaron Meurer Join me in congratulating them on their acceptance. To everyone who was accepted, you should be receiving an email from your mentors soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer about your project. You should meet with your mentors about once a week during the summer to go over your progress. You should either meet on a public channel (like Gitter), or else post minutes of your meeting in some public channel, so that the whole community can see your progress too. Note that in many cases you may interact with some mentors as your primary mentors, and other mentors will be backup mentors. Please contact the backup mentors if you are not able to get ahold of your primary mentor(s). If you cannot get ahold of either, please let me and Oscar Benjamin ([email protected]) know immediately. I would like all of us to strongly encourage students to submit pull requests early and often. This will go a long ways towards making sure that you don't end the summer with a ton of code written that never gets merged. Students should help review pull requests by other students, so that we don't get bogged down reviewing so much code. We also require that all students keep a weekly blog of their work over the summer. If you don't already have a blog, you should start one. I recommend using either Wordpress, Blogger, or creating your own blog on GitHub pages. If you are savvy enough to set it up, I recommend GitHub pages, but if you aren't, both Wordpress and Blogger are good enough. The GSoC coding period officially starts May 29 (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline). I would like to thank all the students who applied this year and everyone who submitted a patch. I would also like to thank all the mentors for helping review patches and proposals. This summer is looking to be another very productive one for SymPy, and I look forward to it! Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LEC9Fj3KhU3GOLrHU80O3cXor4Hzo9J5TAbFrWu8P33g%40mail.gmail.com.
