What sorts of projects are you interested in mentoring?

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM Nicolas Guarin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would be willing to start as a mentor but I lack experience regarding GSoC. 
> Is it a good idea to start with one of these projects to be more involved in 
> the development?
>
> Nicolás
>
> On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 2:35:37 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jason,
>>
>> Thank you for the clarification and for taking the time to share your 
>> thoughts. I appreciate your insights.
>>
>> Best,
>> Fırat Bezir
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> If there are symengine mentors, they can list the project.
>>>
>>> I don't get the sense that symengine is currently a sympy community 
>>> priority. Most of the symengine contributors have stepped back from sympy 
>>> contributions for some years now.
>>>
>>> Anyone can open discussions and pull requests regarding symengine to try to 
>>> make it a priority. It just hasn't happened in some time.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>> moorepants.info
>>> +01 530-601-9791
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM fırat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Jason,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your response—I really appreciate the guidance so far 
>>>> regarding GSoC project ideas. I wanted to check in about the SymEngine 
>>>> integration project to understand the best way forward.
>>>>
>>>> I’ve started reaching out to SymEngine maintainers to explore possible 
>>>> mentorship. If a mentor from their side is available, would SymPy be open 
>>>> to listing this project again? Or are there other factors beyond 
>>>> mentorship availability that led to its removal?
>>>>
>>>> I’d love to contribute in a way that aligns with SymPy’s priorities, so I 
>>>> want to make sure this is a viable path before moving forward. Otherwise, 
>>>> I’m happy to explore alternative projects.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time and any insights you can share!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Fırat Bezir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Firat,
>>>>>
>>>>> My suggestions would be to contact the symengine maintainers. Most are on 
>>>>> this mailing list, but may not watch it closely. You could open an issue 
>>>>> on the symengine repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jason
>>>>> moorepants.info
>>>>> +01 530-601-9791
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM fırat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear SymPy Maintainers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently noticed that the SymEngine-related project idea was removed 
>>>>>> from the GSoC ideas page due to a lack of available mentors. I had been 
>>>>>> preparing to work on "Improve SymPy integration" project and was  
>>>>>> interested in contributing to the integration of SymEngine as a backend 
>>>>>> for more parts of SymPy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Before deciding on my next steps, I wanted to ask:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any possibility that a mentor could still be found for this 
>>>>>> project? If any contributors are interested but hesitant due to time 
>>>>>> constraints, I’d be happy to refine the proposal to ensure it aligns 
>>>>>> with SymPy’s needs.
>>>>>> Would it be possible to reintroduce the idea if a suitable mentor is 
>>>>>> found
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would greatly appreciate any guidance on this, as I was highly 
>>>>>> motivated to work on SymEngine’s integration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If needed, I am also open to modifying the project scope to better fit 
>>>>>> the available mentorship.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking forward to your thoughts!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Fırat Bezir
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 11:03:21 AM UTC+3 [email protected] 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've deleted the SymEngine ideas from the ideas page because I don't
>>>>>>> think we have any mentors for it. If I'm wrong about that and someone
>>>>>>> actually can mentor it, the ideas are still in the git history,
>>>>>>> although you may want to consider writing the ideas from scratch so
>>>>>>> that they are updated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aaron Meurer
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Thanks for initiating Aaron, I just did some cleaning/adding on the 
>>>>>>> > physics and code gen.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Jason
>>>>>>> > moorepants.info
>>>>>>> > +01 530-601-9791
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> Google just sent out an email to the organizations saying that they
>>>>>>> >> are going to scrutinize the ideas pages harder this year and they
>>>>>>> >> don't want to see old or overscope ideas. So I think we need to spend
>>>>>>> >> some time cleaning up our ideas page. I am going to go through it and
>>>>>>> >> delete some ideas that I don't think are relevant any more and add
>>>>>>> >> some new ones, and I would encourage others to do the same.
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> Aaron Meurer
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > The GSoC organization applications are now open.
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > We need to go through our ideas page and update it.
>>>>>>> >> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas Please feel free to
>>>>>>> >> > edit that page and delete old ideas that are no longer relevant and
>>>>>>> >> > add new ones.
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > Each idea needs to fit into one of the project lengths, ~90 hours
>>>>>>> >> > (small project), ~175 hours (medium project) or ~350 hours (large
>>>>>>> >> > project). Right now most of the ideas there are large projects so 
>>>>>>> >> > if
>>>>>>> >> > you have any ideas for smaller projects that would be best.
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > Also, if you are interested in mentoring, please add your name to 
>>>>>>> >> > the
>>>>>>> >> > list of people on that page (or if you can no longer mentor, please
>>>>>>> >> > remove your name). If you were a student in a previous year I
>>>>>>> >> > encourage you to mentor this year.
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > If you're someone who's interested in applying to GSoC, please feel
>>>>>>> >> > free to reach out to us on this list to discuss ideas.
>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>> >> > Aaron Meurer
>>>>>>> >>
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