ideas for Google Summer of Code projects

[Burcin Erocal]

Hi,

this is a call for project ideas for the upcoming Google Summer of
Code (GSoC) [1] to be submitted under the umbrella of the lmonade
project [2].

[1] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.lmona.de

For those completely new to the process, within the GSoC, Google
supports students to work full time on an open source project for 3
months. The projects are guided by at least one mentor who is
supposed to be in close contact with the student and provide help
on technical matters throughout the summer.

The first step in the GSoC is for an organization to compile a list of
projects and mentors, which will be reviewed by Google to decide if we
get funding or not. Projects should be within reach of students without
much specialized background and doable in less than 3 months. A good
rule of thumb is that the mentor should be able to complete the project
in at most a month.


Last year, we applied with lmonade [3] as an umbrella organization [4]
for projects from Flint, PolyBoRi, Singular and lmonade itself.

[3] http://www.lmona.de
[4] http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc

Our application was not accepted, but we were able to propose most of
the projects under the Sage umbrella [5].

[5] https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/sage

Especially the projects proposed for Flint were very popular with the
students and they received many applications. In the end, one of the 3
slots given to Sage by Google went to Lina Kulakova [6]. The DFG
priority program Algorithmic and Experimental Methods in Algebra,
Geometry and Number Theory [7] also financed Andrés Goens, a student
from Aachen, to work on his GSoC proposal [8].

[6] http://lina-kulakova.blogspot.de/
[7] http://www.computeralgebra.de/
[8]
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/goens/1


If you have any ideas for projects and/or you would like to mentor
students for the GSoC, please reply to this message.

I will be updating the lmonade wiki pages [9] with project and mentor
information during the next week, as the application deadline for
organizations is this Friday.

[9] http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc

Here is the full time table:

https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

More information can be found in the Mentor Guide [10] and the FAQ [11].

[10] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/what-makes-a-good-mentor/
[11]
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page


Cheers,
Burcin


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[Burcin Erocal]

Hi,

our application as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of
Code was accepted.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/lmonade

This means students can submit project proposals to work on during
the summer for 3 months. Some of these will get funded by Google for
5000 USD per student. The application deadline is April 22.

If you have suggestions for new projects, we can still add them to the
list:

http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/projects

Please pass the word around and consider mentoring a project.


Cheers,
Burcin

[Burcin Erocal]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:04:44 +0200
Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote:

>The application deadline is April 22.

Oops. Student application period opens on April 22nd. The deadline is
May 3 at 19.00 UTC.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
Burcin

[Martin Albrecht]

Hey Burcin,

I am wondering whether we should propose a project on polynomial matrices as
part of the Sage mentoring organisation or lmonade? By polynomial matrices I
mean a general implementation of polynomials with matrix coefficients which
allows to do matrix x matrix multiplication fast.

Cheers,
Martin

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