[GSoC-general] GSOC 2016

[Ralf Gommers]

<now with reply-all>


On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Shashank,
>
> This email came through just now, even though you sent it 9 days ago.
> Replying anyway, hopefully it is still useful to you.
>
> Note that this is a general GSoC list; for concrete project ideas you'll
> want to contact the project directly. In this case, you want the
> numpy-discussion list: http://scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Shashank Gandham <
> shashankgandham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>     I am Shashank Gandham, a second year undergraduate student majoring
>> in Computer Science from India. I am interested in Vector Math Library
>> Integration for Python which is one of the proposed projects for GSOC 2016 (
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2016-project-ideas#numpy-project-ideas).
>>
>>
>
>> Honestly I am not much experienced in either Python or C, I learned both
>> the languages in Introduction to Programming in my college which I took in
>> my 2nd semester. I am really interested in contributing to the open source
>> project and as I have 3 months vacation in the summer, I find it apt to
>> utilize my time doing something constructive. You may have your doubts
>> about my abilities,
>>
>
> Honestly, if you're not already fluent in both Python and C, NumPy is
> quite a difficult project to work on. This idea is listed as
> "intermediate", but that's relative to other NumPy ideas. On that page we
> will get a few easy/intermediate ideas for SciPy, which is more accessible
> to newcomers.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
>
>>
> hence I am writing this email, If it is possible and convenient you can
>> test me before the applications start, and on the basis of my performance,
>> you can make your decision. I can assure you, I can provide about 6-8 hrs a
>> day, 7 days a week in summer.
>>
>> In the mean time, I would also like to know, how can I contribute to
>> python now?
>>
>> Hoping to hear your thoughts on this soon.
>>
>> Yours Sincerely,
>> Shashank Gandham
>>
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