[SciPy-Dev] GSOC - improvements to the .sparse package advice

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Izzy Cecil <lorr.cecil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I'm hoping to participate in the google summer of code this year.
> Specifically, improvements to scipy.sparse (as suggested by
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas). I'm an
> experienced coder, but have never really gotten my hands into a large
> open source project before (which is exactly why GSOC appeals to me).
> Scipy seems like a great fit for my interests! What's more, I have
> some experience in the mathematics of sparse matrix encodings. The
> plan is to have some small commits in sometime this week, to get the
> hang of things.
>

Hey Izzy, welcome! Pauli and Denis gave you some good pointers already
about where to get started. Regarding the community aspects and what is
expected of pull requests, you may want to read
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/HACKING.rst.txt

Cheers,
Ralf
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