2023 GSoC Projects Announced

[Aaron Meurer]

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 5 people have
been accepted to work on SymPy this year. The following projects have been
accepted:

Contributor, Project: Mentors

Abhishek Patidar, "Improving Polynomial GCD". Mentors: Oscar Benjamin and
Kalevi Suominen

Anurag Surendra Bhat, "Improving And Expanding Functionalities Of SymPy's
Control Module". Mentors: Smit Lunagariya, Jason Moore, and Nikhil Maan

Ishan Pandhare, "Extending Continuum mechanics module: Introducing classes for
Cables and Improving the Truss class". Mentors: Prakhar Saxena and Advait Pote

Tilo Reneau-Cardoso, "Improving Relational Assumptions in SymPy’s New
Assumptions". Mentors: Aaron Meurer and Francesco Bonazzi

Tirthankar Mazumder, "Rewrite LaTeX Parser".Mentors: Francesco Bonazzi and
Aaron Meurer

Join me in congratulating them on their acceptance.

To everyone who was 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. Note that in many cases
you may interact with some mentors as your primary mentors, and other mentors
will be backup mentors. Please contact the backup mentors if you are not able
to get ahold of your primary mentor(s). If you cannot get ahold of either,
please let me and Oscar Benjamin (oscar.j....@gmail.com) know
immediately.

I would like all of us to strongly encourage students 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 GSoC coding period officially starts May 29
(https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline).

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