Gnuastro in Google Summer of Code (GSoC 2021)

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear all,

GNU Astronomy Utilities[1] (Gnuastro) is participating in this year's 
Google Summer of Code[2] (GSoC) as part of the OpenAstronomy[3] 
organization. Two main ideas have been posted for this year ([4] for 
astrometry and [5] for Python wrappers for Gnuastro's powerful C 
library). Although other interesting suggestions are also welcome.

Through the Summer of Code program, Google offers interested students 
generous stipends to work on a free software package during the summer 
months (that they are presumably free from course work). Free software 
projects benefit from their contributions and help mentor the students. 
In the case of Gnuastro, its not just raw software/programming, but it 
will also involve a fair share of Astronomical data analysis.

So if you know any students (undergraduate, M.Sc or Ph.D) that may be 
interested in understanding how astronomical data are analyzed and 
improve it, want to contribute to a large project, *and* get paid by 
Google for doing this (which is also great for their CV!), please pass 
this email onto them. The students can be from any field, but I guess 
students in astronomy, computer science, or software engineering may be 
most interested.

Students can start submitting applications from March 29th until April 
13th, see [2] for the details. Just note that active code contribution 
before the submission greatly increases their chances of getting 
accepted, so they are recommended to get their hands dirty as soon as 
possible, following the steps in [6].

Cheers,
Mohammad

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro

[2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com

[3] https://openastronomy.org

[4] 
https://openastronomy.org/gsoc/gsoc2021/#/projects?project=astrometry 
(this page requires Javascript to open)

[5] 
https://openastronomy.org/gsoc/gsoc2021/#/projects?project=gnuastro_library_in_python 
(this page requires Javascript to open)

[6] https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110457