[SciPy-Dev] GSoC: ideas & finding mentors

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Benny Malengier
<benny.malengier at gmail.com>wrote:

> For ODE, I looked at my scikit package today (
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=scikits.odes&version=2.0.2)
> and see almost 2000 downloads last month. So the desire for this seems
> present.
>
> The last discussion on this list seemed to indicate that moving the
> cvode/ida part to scipy would be a good idea. Be it in the form of the odes
> scikit (which is closest to structure of scipy) or via the approach of one
> of the other 2 python interfaces of sundials.
>
> Just like the minimize function in optimize, a general framework for
> ode/dae would be nice, and then offer cvode and ida as defaults instead of
> current defaults. The fact the scikit is present should make this a less
> difficult GSOC than starting from scratch. However, for state of the art,
> interface to Krylov precond should be added, and adding the sensitivity
> versions cvodes and idas would be super too of course. The algebraic
> equation solver kinsol would also not be a bad addition to the existing
> ones in scipy
>
> I was hoping to find time myself for the first part of this, but don't
> seem to find the holes in my workschedule needed to do this.
>

Would you have time to (co-)mentor a student? Typically takes a few hours
per week. There's clearly interest in getting a sundials interface into
scipy.integrate, but it'll need expert input.

Ralf



> Benny
>
>
>
> 2014-03-05 21:30 GMT+01:00 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi students,
>>
>> There is quite a bit of interest in GSoC ideas for Scipy and Numpy, which
>> is great to see. The official application period to submit proposals opens
>> next week and closes on the 21st, which is in two weeks and a bit. So now
>> is the time to start discussing draft proposals on the list.
>>
>> There have been a few ideas posted on the list which haven't gotten
>> enough feedback yet (FFTs, cluster, ODEs). This may reflect the lack of an
>> active maintainer of those modules, so it will be harder to find a suitable
>> mentor. I want to point out that this is also a chicken-and-egg problem: if
>> you're actively posting and improving your draft and sending some pull
>> requests to fix some small issues, it shows both your willingness to work
>> with the community and how you work with core devs to get your PRs merged,
>> which helps find an interested mentor.
>>
>> To tackle the student-mentor matchmaking from another angle, I've added
>> on https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas a "potential
>> mentors" field to the idea I know the names for (Stefan and me, for
>> wavelets). If other potential mentors could do the same for other ideas,
>> that would be very helpful. I can take some guesses (Pauli, Evgeni for
>> splines? Chuck, Chris Barker for datetime?) but I haven't added any names.
>> So please do add your name, keeping in mind that this is to get the process
>> going and not yet a full commitment.
>>
>> Final note: you don't necessarily have to be a core developer to be a
>> co-mentor. If you're an expert on a topic that a student is interested in
>> and would like to see that project happen, please indicate you're willing
>> to help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
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