Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread PhilippStrack
Hello, I want to create a GTK based GUI for sympy in the GSOC Program 2008. it would be really nice to get some feedback on the application: Gnome Summer of Code Application Target of this application is to combine available open source technologies to build a modern computer algebra system wit

[sympy] Google Summer of Code Application

2011-02-28 Thread Aaron Meurer
Google has opened applications for organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2011. The application period ends March 11. I have edited the wiki page at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2011-Organization-Application with this year's questions. The answers that are there right now are ba

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Sebastian
Hi Philipp, Last summer I started a project that seems to be very similar to what you are describing. http://code.google.com/p/symbide/ Although it has some limitations, I think the basis is pretty well written. It supports sympy (e.g. you don't have to define numbers and variables explicitly),

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi Philipp, I did not read all of your post. But, are you determined to use GTK ? I would be much happier if you could go with wx -- wxPython. It is also a quite powerful GUI gramework, and it runs much better on non-Linux platforms: I think there is a GTK version for Windows, but it surely is no

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:25:57PM +0200, Sebastian Haase wrote: > I would be much happier if you could go with wx -- wxPython. +1. Moreover it can integrate with a lot of existing and to come tools for scientific python. Cheers, Gaël --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread PhilippStrack
Hi Sebastian, at the moment I am really favouring GTK, but I am not determined. I will use what ever technology makes it possible to achieve good results. The Pro's for gtk are that the combination of gtk.TextView and gtk.textbuffer is really well suited to do what I want to do. Even better there

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Mateusz Paprocki
Hi Philipp, thank you for your reply. Now I have much clearer view on the project you would like to do. > Ok the question I did not answer why I do not work on sage? > > I like sage and I think it is really great software. I want to create > an alternative to the sage webbased interface because

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread PhilippStrack
ok you conviced me :) I will take a look at the wxPython API to get an impression what difference in the complexity it will make best wishes Philipp On 31 Mrz., 15:36, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:25:57PM +0200, Sebastian Haase wrote: > > I would be muc

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread basti
Hi Philipp, Last summer I started a project that seems to be very similar to what you are describing. http://code.google.com/p/symbide/ Although it has some limitations, I think the basis is pretty well written. It supports sympy (e.g. you don't have to define numbers and variables explicitly),

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Mateusz Paprocki wrote: > Having light weight version (but full of features and user > friendly) of SAGE notebook is an interesting idea. Note however that > Basti have done a lot work in this field, so I think cooperation with > him would be very fruitful

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Mateusz Paprocki wrote: > > Having light weight version (but full of features and user > > friendly) of SAGE notebook is an interesting idea. Note however that > > Basti hav

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Gael Varoquaux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Mateusz Paprocki wrote: > > > Having light weight version (but full of features and user

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > I am going to write to ipython-dev to point attention to this thread, > as this application wants to have something useful now. ipython1 is > ambitious and > it may take a year or something, until something usable comes out - > but y

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > I am going to write to ipython-dev to point attention to this thread, > > as this application wants to have something useful now. ipython1 is > > am

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread PhilippStrack
Hi everybody, thank you very much for pointing me to ipython1. I started reading about it and I love approach they take. Regarding my application I think that it will be easy to later use Ipython1 as a backend. I will try to get in contact with Benjamin Ragan-Kelley to avoid doing work that is al

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-03-31 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:58 PM, PhilippStrack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > thank you very much for pointing me to ipython1. I started reading > about it and I love approach they take. Regarding my application I > think that it will be easy to later use Ipython1 as a backen

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-01 Thread PhilippStrack
Hi everybody, I have updated my GSOC application Creating a GTK based GUI for Sympy Application for the Google Summer of Code 2008 Philipp Strack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Target of this application is to create a lightweight gui for the python based computer algebra system sympy. The GUI sh

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-01 Thread Saroj Adhikari
Just few suggestions on your application. Disclaimer: I am not expressing my thoughts about the content/ proceedings of the application/actual-gsoc-work. I am just pointing out things that I think will better your application structure, grammar, and punctuation. > Target of this application is

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Philipp! On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Saroj Adhikari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just few suggestions on your application. > > Disclaimer: I am not expressing my thoughts about the content/ > proceedings of the application/actual-gsoc-work. I am just pointing > out things that I thi

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread PhilippStrack
Hello, Thank you very much Saroj for your corrections, I will incoporate them. I am very sorry for my slow reaction with the ipython list. I actually tried to post to the ipython list on Tuesday through gmame and waited for the post to appear, but it did not because I was not subscribed to the li

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:32 PM, PhilippStrack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Thank you very much Saroj for your corrections, I will incoporate > them. I am very sorry for my slow reaction with the ipython list. I > actually tried to post to the ipython list on Tuesday > through gma

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:32:27AM -0700, PhilippStrack wrote: > At the moment I am rewriting my proposal. Your feedback and the > possibilities ipython opens convinced me that it would nice to make > the GUI as backend independent as possible. I think this might be > accomplished by encapsulating

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > Have a look at my last blogpost, Sorry, I forgot the link: http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?p=26 Gaël --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread PhilippStrack
On 3 Apr., 19:41, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > Have a look at my last blogpost, > > Sorry, I forgot the link: >http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?p=26 > > Gaël Hello Gaël, I totally agree with your post. An even

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:05:52AM -0700, PhilippStrack wrote: > At the moment I dont know what I really think about it. Me neither :->. This is a hard problem. Whatever code you write that moves forward, whether is has an abstraction layer, or not, will be useful, because it will help us underst

[sympy] Question regarding Google Summer of Code Application Process

2011-04-06 Thread Helena
My name is Helena Scheuble and I am an undergraduate computer science student (with a mathematics minor) at Washington State University. I just recently encountered the Google Summer of Code program, and just discovered your project today. I have taken Calculus I & II and discrete mathematics. Sin

Re: [sympy] Question regarding Google Summer of Code Application Process

2011-04-06 Thread Aaron S. Meurer
On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Helena wrote: > My name is Helena Scheuble and I am an undergraduate computer science > student (with a mathematics minor) at Washington State University. I > just recently encountered the Google Summer of Code program, and just > discovered your project today. > > I

[sympy] Re: Question regarding Google Summer of Code Application Process

2011-04-06 Thread Helena
Thanks for your quick response. Yes, I am clearly not as advanced mathematically as others (I have reviewed some of the other proposals), but this program piqued my interest. Coming at it with such a limited time, however, I do need to evaluate whether the process is feasible. I was encouraged by m

Re: [sympy] Re: Question regarding Google Summer of Code Application Process

2011-04-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Helena, On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Helena wrote: > Thanks for your quick response. Yes, I am clearly not as advanced > mathematically as others (I have reviewed some of the other > proposals), but this program piqued my interest. Coming at it with > such a limited time, however, I do need

Re: [sympy] Re: Question regarding Google Summer of Code Application Process

2011-04-06 Thread Aaron S. Meurer
Hi. We have decided to move the patch deadline to Monday. So you should focus on writing an application now, and work on a patch over the weekend. Aaron Meurer On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hi Helena, > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Helena wrote: >> Thanks for you