Hello, My name is Arpit Merchant and I participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016 with Sage. I had an amazing time and I would love to stay involved with Sage and GSoC. Will Sage be participating this year for GSoC 2017 too? If so, I think it might be nice to get started soon. The programme timeline has been released and it can be found here <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline>. The application period for mentoring organizations to submit applications to Google is from January 19 - February 9.
I attended Sage Days 75 and I met some wonderful members of the Sage community. During discussions with them, I mentioned that the barrier to entry for a student to participate in GSoC with Sage is very high and the resources are relatively scarce. I would like to start by helping with that and more broadly, stay involved in some or the other capacity throughout (help with logistics of the GSoC process from the perspective of someone who participated recently, perhaps even as (an extremely novice) co-mentor to some project). I feel it would be helpful to students and mentors to have a streamlined process and to that end, I am proposing a restructuring of Sage's GSoC Pages. In particular, I propose two wiki pages, *Sage’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Main Page* (comprehensive) and *GSoC 20XX Ideas Page. *The idea is that the former remains persistent over the years and only the latter is created anew. The current main page is here <https://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC> and it is not very informative. And last year's Ideas Page <https://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2016> contained links to the main documentation, trac, etc. As a student, just setting up Sage to start contributing was tedious and inaccessible. And I faced a lot of trouble with understanding the development workflow and navigating Sage code. My first aim is to simplify all of this. Please take a look at this Google doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVkzj3q6O5aiEa5Q3waPGu4gfUuhaa4PjiRpWn_1p9Y/edit?usp=sharing> which outlines my ideas on redesigning the GSoC wiki and please do comment with suggestions, edits, etc. I am volunteering to write most of the sections (barring some of the sections on Mentors since I do not have an adequate background for those. I am hoping someone else from the community can assist in completing those.) Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Sincerely, Arpit Merchant. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
