Hi Aaron,

I think we should start by removing everything from the ideas page and
moving it to an "old ideas" page with a clear note indicating that
some might still be relevant but others are likely not. I don't think
it is good to leave things on there and just let them roll over from
one year to another.

Each idea should be added each year by someone who is at willing to
mentor the project in that specific year. Applicants can also look at
the "old ideas" if they are considering proposing something that is
not listed in the main ideas page.

It would be better to have a small list of good, still relevant ideas
that we are confident can be mentored and that have been recently
checked to see that they are not out of date. I don't think that we
can get to that without first just removing everything. If anyone
wants to see something on the "official" ideas page then they should
add it and list their name with a clear understanding that they are
willing to mentor that project this year if there is a qualified
candidate for the project.

Many of the names listed as potential mentors are people I have not
seen for some time. I don't really expect that they would mentor a
project and I also don't expect that they would remove their name from
the list: we should not carry that list of "potential mentors" over
from one year to another. The same considerations apply to many of the
project ideas that were added a long time ago by people who are no
longer around and likely have no intention of mentoring any projects
or updating the ideas page.

Oscar

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 18:49, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is time again for us to apply to Google to be a GSoC mentoring org.
>
> I need help updating the GSoC ideas page.
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas. If any ideas there are
> already completed, please remove or update them. Also please add new
> ideas, although you may want to discuss them here first if you aren't
> sure about them.
>
> Secondly, we need to update the potential mentors page.
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas#potential-mentors. If
> you were a student in the past I encourage you to mentor. Please add
> your name there if you can mentor this year. If you can't mentor but
> want to help review applications, just let me know.
>
> If you are someone who is interested in applying to SymPy for GSoC,
> start here. https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Student-Instructions
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
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