| 17 | | Arc Riley has stepped up to run it for the PSF again this year, and I'm |
| 18 | | backstopping him. If you are interested in mentoring or kibbitzing on those |
| 19 | | who are, please sign up for the soc2010-mentors mailing list here, |
| 20 | | |
| 21 | | http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soc2010-mentors |
| 22 | | |
| 23 | | This year we're proposing to solicit and prioritize applications for |
| 24 | | Python 3.x -- 3K tools, porting old projects, etc. Python 2.x projects |
| 25 | | will be a distinct second. There will be no "core" category this year, |
| 26 | | although obviously if someone on one of the core teams wants to push a |
| 27 | | project it'll help! |
| 28 | | |
| 29 | | If you have an idea for a project, please send it to the -mentors list and add |
| 30 | | it to the wiki at |
| 31 | | |
| 32 | | http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2010 |
| 33 | | |
| 34 | | We're also going to change a few things up to make it more useful to the PSF. |
| 35 | | Specifically, |
| 36 | | |
| 37 | | - the foundation is going to *require* 1 blog post/wk from each student. |
| 38 | | |
| 39 | | - we're going to hire an administrative assistant to monitor the students. |
| 40 | | |
| 41 | | - the student application process will be a bit more rigorous and job-app |
| 42 | | like; the Django SF has been doing this for at least one round and they |
| 43 | | claim that it results in much better and more serious students. |
| 44 | | |
| 45 | | - we'll be focusing on student quality more than on project egalitarianism. |
| 46 | | If project X can recruit three fantastic students to one fantastic and one |
| 47 | | mediocre student for project Y, then project X gets three and project Y |
| 48 | | gets one. |
| 49 | | |
| 50 | | The hope is that this will make the GSoC much more useful for Python than it |
| 51 | | has been in the past. |
| 52 | | |
| 53 | | Arc will be posting something to the www.python.org site and python-announce |
| 54 | | soon, too. |
| 55 | | |
| 56 | | Followups to soc2010-mentors. |
| 57 | | |
| 58 | | cheers, |
| 59 | | --titus |
| 60 | | |
| 61 | | ----- End forwarded message ----- |
| 62 | | }}} |
| 63 | | |
| 64 | | Given the focus on Py3K-related projects, the most likely proposals to be accepted will be ones that continue work on the Py3K port of NumPy or propose to port SciPy, matplotlib, or ipython to Py3K. |
| 65 | | |
| 66 | | = Summer of Code 2010 Ideas = |
| 67 | | |
| 68 | | == Ideas with significant existing momentum == |
| 69 | | |
| 70 | | * Port !SciPy to Python 3.0 (or continue finishing up the porting of !NumPy) |
| 71 | | * Improve `numpy.f2py` test coverage and fix any issues that crop up on Python 3. |
| 72 | | * Port Scipy to Python 3 |
| 73 | | * Set up a build framework that uses 2to3 (see e.g. how it is [http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/tools/py3tool.py done in Numpy]) |
| 74 | | * After that, modify Scipy so that it works both on Python 2 and Python 3 -- this can be done one submodule at a time, so the work can be partitioned in manageable pieces. Some submodules will be more work than others. |
| 75 | | * Knowledge of C is required in porting some of the submodules. There are, however, also pure-Python submodules. |
| 76 | | * Some information on: [http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/Py3K.txt changes made in porting Numpy] |
| 77 | | * datetime types - see the [http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/neps/datetime-proposal.rst NEP] and recent SVN versions of !NumPy |
