Congratulations everyone! On May 5, 2017 12:31 AM, "Aaron Meurer" <asmeu...@gmail.com> 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 nine students have > been accepted to work on SymPy/SymEngine. The following projects have been > accepted: > > Student (Project): Mentors > > Abdullah Javed Nesar (Rubi Integrator): Ondřej Čertík > > Adha Ranjith Kumar (Implementing Solvers for SymEngine): Srajan Garg, > Sumith Kulal, Shivam Vats > > Arif Ahmed (Implementing a SymPy module for Integration of Homogeneous > functions over Polytopes): Ondřej Čertík > > Arihant Parsoya (Rubi Integrator): Ondřej Čertík and Francesco Bonazzi > > Björn Dahlgren (Improved code-generation facilities): Aaron Meurer, Jason > Moore, Sartaj Singh > > Gaurav Dhingra (Symbolic Integration): Aaron Meurer and Kalevi Suominen > > ShikharJ (Improving SymEngine's Python Wrappers and SymPy-SymEngine > Integration): Isuru Fernando and Sumith Kulal > > Szymon Mieszczak (Implementation of multiple types of coordinate systems > for vectors): Sudhanshu Mishra, Jason Moore, Francesco Bonazzi > > Valeriia Gladkova (Group Theory: Subgroups, Homomorphisms and > Presentations): Kshitij Saraogi, Sudhanshu Mishra, and Kalevi Suominen > > 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 mentors soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer > about your project. You should meet with your mentors about once a week > during > the summer to go over your progress. You should either meet on a public > channel (like Gitter), or else post minutes of your meeting in some public > channel, so that the whole community can see your progress too. > > 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. Planet > SymPy is > also aggregated on Twitter at https://twitter.com/planetsympy. I also > recommend that it have some kind of comments box, so that people can > comment > on your work. Planet SymPy is currently broken, but Sumith and Ondřej are > working on fixing it. > > Starting on the week of May 30 (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 mentors or > I > will email you to remind you about it. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6K1ZvbsqEuYUcy4HSeX1i_eB6_K7ZcqJ9sgoZGCYyYNKQ%40mail. > gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6K1ZvbsqEuYUcy4HSeX1i_eB6_K7ZcqJ9sgoZGCYyYNKQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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