[SciPy-Dev] SciPy Central in GSoC 2013

[Surya Kasturi]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Surya Kasturi <suryak at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I created a blog to post proposal, ideas for proposal etc.. on spc.
>> http://surya-gsoc2013.blogspot.in/
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>> The proposal is under making.. but I looking for someone to comment of my
>> ideas. It would be great if someone could help me choosing some of them or
>> all of them..
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>> (Let me know if they have to be posted in mailing list)
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> Hi Surya, I think posting on your blog is fine. It looks to me like you
> have a lot of good ideas, but it would help your proposal to group them
> together into a couple of themes. For example:
> 1. Finish and deploy new site design
> 2. Improve site performance and maintainability by:
>   - adding a caching mechanism
>   - using Django-CMS and migrating to Django 1.4.5
>   - add design documentation
> 3. Code/snippet submission by:
>   <your points 6, 8, 12>
> 4. Other new features
>   <your points 1, 2, 3, 4>
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> Then you have to have some idea on relative importance of all these things
> and how long they'll take in order to make a plan with a rough timeline
> attached.
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> Cheers,
> Ralf
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Thanks a lot -- will keep this example in mind. it sounds good to me.
Started writing proposal :)

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>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Surya Kasturi <suryak at ieee.org> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>  On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Surya Kasturi <suryak at ieee.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> Hi everyone,
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>>>>>> How about SciPy Central on GSoC 2013?
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>>>>>> I was thinking to participate in GSoC this year and thought of
>>>>>> contributing to this project as GSoC student. Firstly, I was luck enough to
>>>>>> find SPC which closely matched my interests. Since, I am already slightly
>>>>>> familiar with the existing code, made some small contributions, I thought
>>>>>> it would be very nice to continue my work as GSoC student during summer.
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>>>>>> Is it possible?
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>>>>> Hi Surya, it's definitely possible I think. And a good idea. Improving
>>>>> SciPy Central meets the requirements for a project set by Google and you've
>>>>> already met the requirement of submitting at least one patch before
>>>>> applying.
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>>>>> I would encourage you to start working on a proposal, and discuss it
>>>>> on this list. Maybe you've seen this already, but just in case:
>>>>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/Application
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>>>>> The other thing to do is find a mentor. We have several people that
>>>>> indicated that they'd like to be a mentor this year, maybe one of those
>>>>> people is interested in SPC? Or other people on the list?
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>>>> Hi, we do have a potential mentor for this project, Sebastián Ventura.
>>>> Since he's not yet active in the Scipy community, I'll briefly introduce
>>>> him. Sebastian is an experienced web developer, and has participated before
>>>> in GSoC both as a student and a mentor. We came into contact via the PSF
>>>> (our GSoC umbrella org), to which he had indicated that he was available as
>>>> a mentor for Python GSoC projects. Once he has signed up for this mailing
>>>> list - which may take a day or two because scipy.org is unresponsive
>>>> right now - he'll join the discussion.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ralf
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>>> I am waiting for him.. did he joined the mailing list?
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