2012/2/14 c. <carlo.defa...@gmail.com>: > > On 14 Feb 2012, at 23:15, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > >> As part of our application for Google Summer of Code 2012 application, >> >> http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_2012_application >> >> we ought to create a good-looking suggestion page for students that >> says what projects are good for students and who might mentor them: >> >> http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Project_Ideas >> >> I am hoping enough people are interested in (1) proposing students >> projects and (2) *mentoring* them. The time commitment for mentoring >> isn't huge. Perhaps 5 hours a week on average, 10 hours at most. Last >> year the mentoring workload was distributed in the maintainers' >> mailing list, and there's no reason why this can't happen again. So >> please don't be shy about offering mentorship. Unlike student work, >> mentoring is unpaid, so naturally we can't demand a fulltime com >> >> Note that I think we should also consider Octave-Forge projects. >> Please add Octave-Forge projects to the wiki as you deem appropriate. >> >> If you are interested in mentoring, please write your name in the >> appopriate location in the ideas page of the wiki. >> >> Also, feel free to mercilessly edit the application page. I am >> currently looking for a backup organisation administrator. Of course I >> volunteer to do this right now, and I don't foresee needing a backup, >> but this is what an administrator does: >> >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#org_admin_role >> >> I think the Ocave community could benefit a lot from GSoC. Please >> consider helping with this effort. >> > I see cholinc is listed among the projects for sparse matrices. > Notice that cholinc has been deprecated in matlab and is going to be > substituted by ichol. > Wouldn't it be better to implement ichol directly?
Sure. Do you want to edit the wiki yourself to record this change? That's why it's a wiki, so it's fast and easy to edit by anyone. Also, would you be willing to mentor for any of these tasks? - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
