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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:42:46 +0100
From: Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org>
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Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code 2009
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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 06:52:17 -0700 (PDT)
Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>=20
> On Mar 8, 12:50=C2=A0pm, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote:
> > Are we doing anything for the Google Summer of Code this year?
>=20
> I hope - from the experience in the past - the main focus is on non-
> maths related tasks, that are "easy" and comprehensible from a
> software engineering standpoint. i.e. authentication with existing
> systems (ldap, active directory,...) and embedding into things like
> moodle come to my mind. otoh avoid anything that could confuse, don't
> mention mathematical terms and so on. I think the chances are higher
> if we could boil it down to this sort of technical tasks with short
> and clear descriptions.

+10

This is why I copied the notebook section as an example from the list
for 2008. Even though I would expect Google to be interested in funding
open source implementations of maths, I think it would be better if we
focus on the computer science/engineering side of things.

If we are going ahead with the application, we should try to make the
ideas list very clear, and add well defined milestones/deliverables for
the tasks on the list.


Cheers,

Burcin