[yt-dev] Google summer of code

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 12:19:43 PST 2018


Hi Nathan,

Thanks for putting this together.  Some of the other orgs compile ideas on
a wiki or a GH repo -- do you think that'd work for us?  If not, where
should we brainstorm?

I would also suggest going with NumFOCUS, but both are good options.

-Matt

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking about putting in a few project ideas for yt with either the
> OpenAstronomy or NumFOCUS google summer of code orgs.
>
> Would anyone else be interested in mentoring a google summer of code
> student this summer? To do so you will need to come up with a project idea
> in the following format:
>
> a) a project title
> b) more detailed description of the project (2-5 sentences)
> c) expected outcomes
> d) skills required/preferred
> e) possible mentors. And if possible, an easy, medium or hard rating of
> each project.
>
> (from the google summer of code mentor's guide
> <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list>,
> which includes a number of other suggestions for appropriately scoping a
> summer of code project idea)
>
> The due date for summer of code orgs is January 26th. Ideally I'd like to
> contact the org we're working with a few weeks before that.
>
> In the past we've had trouble attracting students so we need to be careful
> to appropriately scope projects while still making them seem interesting.
>
> We should also decide which org to work with. We went with OpenAstronomy
> in the past but I think it makes sense to associate with NumFOCUS this year
> given our efforts to expose yt to fields outside of astrophysics.
>
> -Nathan
>
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