Re: plan for google-summer code

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Daniel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> First of all, I apologize I may just posted a duplicated message in the
> maintainer's list with the same title yesterday. (In fact I am not sure if
> the message was sent, as I have not received replied.)
>
> I am pretty new to the list, but I have been using Octave for a long time,
> just for my own homework and school project.
>
> My current PhD project here in NYU involvs coding in C/ C++. I would like to
> start spending my spare time in
>
> a) contributing to the open-source communitiy in general here in long term
> on the hand, on the other, I would like to
> b) take part in the google summer code with any possible Octave project, for
> I noticed there were some very successful Octave project done in the past.
>
> So I want to know how I shall start? And what kind of knowledge/background
> is required to contribute to Octave develpment, and for the google summer
> 2015, respectively? Do I need a team for joining the google summer?
>
> A little about my background, I am still learning/improving programming
> skills; I know C/C++ in the level of school project, but no real industry
> experience. As a user, I have been on linux/mac system for more ten years
> and I am familiar with vi, gdb, make, awk, grep, etc utilities.
>
> Any comments, suggestions, and advice would be highly appreciated.
>
> Daniel
>
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Hi Daniel,

I hope you get more responses. You are welcome to join GNU Octave!
You can check some basic guidelines here
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html

For GSoC we will need tutors and project proposals. In the past we
used this page and I think we can continue doing so.
http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas
If you have ideas of can improve the ones already there, go ahead.

Cheers