Hi everyone. I wanted to get some feedback from the community on some ideas I had for Google Summer of Code projects. For the following ideas, I want to know if you
- think that it is within the scope of the SymPy project enough for us to support it, - think that it is doable as a GSoC project (i.e., it isn't too much or too little work to complete over a summer), and - are able to mentor it, or think that we can find someone who can. For some of these, I'm pretty sure that if we put them on our ideas list that there's a high chance that we will get proposals to do them, which is why I'm asking here about them first. Here are my ideas: 1. Some of you may have noticed that WolframAlpha recently released a big update. You can now pay them and get a bunch of features. They also do things like save your search history. Our competition to WolframAlpha is SymPy Live (http://live.sympy.org/). Also, a while back, Ondrej whipped up a thing called SymPy Gamma (http://gamma.sympy.org/), which is a little closer to WolframAlpha. The GSoC project would be to improve one or both of these things. SymPy Gamma could be improved a lot, by making it more intelligent about what output it produces for different inputs, making it parse expressions that aren't given in exact SymPy syntax, making it produce plots, perhaps replacing the notebook with an IPython notebook. SymPy Live could use a lot of the same features. 2. Write a mobile app for Android and/or iOS. Other app developers have already demonstrated that it's possible to run SymPy natively on both of these operating systems. The project would be to write an app that gives a nice interface to it. One thing that could be done would be to make a soft keyboard that is conducive to math input (similar to what WolframAlpha has for their mobile apps). If there are issues with running SymPy on the device itself, we could make the app to just be a nice interface to SymPy Live/Gamma. My main concern with this project is mentors. I don't feel that I know C, Objective-C, Java well enough to mentor a student doing this. Does anyone here feel that they do? 3. Some kind of equation editor. This idea is still vague. It could be considered part of a mobile app interface, part of a potential desktop app interface, or even a terminal curses interface. I just feel that more users would be attracted to SymPy if it had some kind of 2d equation editing capabilities. I'm also interested how you feel about whether or not this fits within the scope of the SymPy project. Most of this wouldn't involve any changes to SymPy itself, other than bug fixes (though things like improved parsing for SymPy Gamma would go there). I personally feel that they do, especially the first two, and that their existence would greatly help expand SymPy's user base, but I think that the community should decide. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
