I don't see the project idea "Mobile app for iOS and/or Android" in the list. I believe the reason is there is no mentor for that project. Isn't that unfair for the students who applied for that idea?
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:08:05 AM UTC+5:30, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > Hi everyone. As many of you may have noticed, Google has announced the > results for Google Summer of Code. I am proud to announce that we got six > slots from Google. The following projects have been accepted: > > Student (Project): Mentor > > - Chetna Gupta (Risch algorithm for symbolic integration): Aaron Meurer > > - Katha Sophie Hotz (Faster Algorithms for Polynomials over Algebraic > Number > Fields): Mateusz Paprocki > > - Manoj Kumar (Improved ODE Solver in SymPy): Sean Vig > > - Mary Clark (Lie Algebra): David Joyner > > - Prasoon Shukla (Vector calculus module): Stefan Krastanov and Gilbert > Gede > > - Sachin Joglekar (Addition of electromagnetism features to > sympy.physics): > Gilbert Gede and Stefan Krastanov > > - Thilina Rathnayake (Diophantine Equation Module for SymPy): Ondřej > Čertík > > Additionally, the following proposals will be accepted through the PSF > with > PyDy. > > - Tarun Gaba (PyDy: Visualization): Jason Moore > > - Varun Josh (PyDy: Code Generation for sympy.physics.mechanics): Jason > Moore > > Join me in congratulating these students on their acceptance. > > In case you don't know, Google Summer of Code is a program where Google > pays > students to write code for open source projects. SymPy was accepted as a > mentoring organization this year. The goal of the program is to help the > students learn new skills, in particular in our case: > > * contributing to opensource > * working with the community > * learn git, pull requests, reviews > * teach them how to review other's people patches > * do useful work for SymPy > * have fun, and encourage the students to stay around > > To all the students who are accepted, you should be receiving an email > from > your mentor soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer > about your project. You should meet with your mentor about once a week > during > the summer to go over your progress. You should either meet on a public > channel (like IRC), or else post minutes of your meeting in some public > channel, so that the whole community can see your progress too. > > As I suggested on the mailing list earlier this year, we may also want to > try > doing Google+ hangouts this year. Face to face chats can be very > effective. > And you can make the hangout public, so that people can watch it in real > time, > and the video will be uploaded to YouTube so that people can watch it > later as > well if they want. > > Some of you have been assigned two mentors. They will both work to keep > you > on track for different aspects of your proposal. If you have two mentors > and > one is not available for something, or does not know the answer, you can > ask > the other. (note, currently in Melange, it will only list one person as > your > mentor. Melange does not let me add co-mentors until after the start of > the > program). > > I would like all of us to strongly encourage students this summer to > submit > pull requests early and often. This will go a long ways towards making > sure > that you don't end the summer with a ton of code written that never gets > merged. Students should help review pull requests by other students, so > that > we don't get bogged down reviewing so much code. > > We also require that all students keep a weekly blog of their work over > the > summer. If you don't already have a blog, you should start one. I > recommend > using either Wordpress, Blogger, or creating your own blog on GitHub > pages. > If you are savvy enough to set it up, I recommend GitHub pages, but if you > aren't, both Wordpress and Blogger are good enough. The only requirement > is > that it has an RSS feed, so we can put it on planet.sympy.org. I also > recommend that it have some kind of comments box, so that people can > comment > on your work. Once you have set up your blog, send me the url of the RSS > feed > so I can add it there. > > Starting on the week of June 17 (when the GSoC period officially begins), > we > will expect you to have at least one blog post a week, describing your > progress for that week, or something interesting about your project. If > you > don't have a post by the beginning of the day on Saturday, your mentor or > I > will email you to remind you about it. > > I will also blog throughout the summer on own blog at > http://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/. I invite other mentors who have > blogs to > do the same. And I encourage all community members to follow and comment > on > the student blogs, so you can see their progress. > > I would like to thank all the students who applied this year and everyone > who > submitted a patch. I would also like to thank all the mentors for helping > review patches and proposals. > > This summer is looking to be another very productive one for SymPy, and I > look > forward to it! > > Aaron Meurer > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
