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Numfocus Google Summer of Code Materials

Google Summer of Code 2016

NumFOCUS will apply to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016. NumFOCUS, an umbrella organization, supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.

This Git repository stores information about NumFOCUS' participation in Google Summer of Code 2016 program and previous editions.

Students and Mentors

Read this document to know how you can apply for the GSoC program. Please also check our ideas list.

For any questions please open an issue in our issue tracker. Or send a email to [e-mail], our mailing list address, and please consider subscribing to the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/a/numfocus.org/forum/#!forum/gsoc.

Organizations Confirmed Under NumFOCUS Umbrella

In alphabetic order.

	biocore biocore is a collection of collaboratively developed bioinformatics packages, including QIIME, Qiita, and scikit-bio, with development happening primarily in the Caporaso Lab and Knight Lab. GitHub | Chat | Project Ideas
	DyND DyND is a C++ library for dynamic multidimensional arrays, with both C++ and Python as first-class targets, and with GPU support. It is inspired by NumPy, aiming to provide a platform for the evolution of dynamic array programming ideas. Website | Ideas Page | Mailing List
	EcoData Retriever The EcoData Retriever automates the tasks of finding, downloading, and cleaning up ecological data files, and then stores them in a local database. Website | Ideas Page
	Gensim "Topic Modelling for Humans." Gensim is an open-source Python library for topic modelling, document indexing and similarity retrieval with large corpora. Target audience is the natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) community. Memory-independent and distributed algorithms. Website | Ideas Page| Mailing List
	JuliaOpt JuliaOpt is an organization that brings together packages written in Julia that are related to optimization. All JuliaOpt packages should be high-quality, documented, tested, support the main operating systems, and interact with each other. Website | Mailing List | Chat | Ideas Page
	matplotlib matplotlib is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. Website | Project Discussions | Ideas Page
	Pandas Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more Website | Ideas Page
	Software Carpentry Teaching technical skills for scientific computing Website | Project Discussions | Ideas Page

Organizations Eligible Under NumFOCUS Umbrella

All the projects listed here. Other projects should send a email to [e-mail].

To participate under the NumFOCUS umbrella, a sub-org must:

1. Have one sub-org admin and at least two mentors (the sub-org admin can be one of the mentors) who are willing to commit to the full GSoC period.

2. Have a good ideas page.

NumFOCUS' Fiscally Sponsored Projects GSoC Status

Project	Status	Ideas Pages
AstroPy	Under OpenAstronomy	http://openastronomy.org/gsoc/gsoc2016/ideas.html
Data Carpentry	Not going to participate	N/A
IPython	Unknow
Julia	Applying as separate organization
Matplotlib	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-matplotlib.md
NumPy	Applying under PSF umbrella	https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016
pandas	Unknown
Project Jupyter	Unknown
PyTables	Unknown
rOpenSci	Not going to participate	N/A
Software Carpentry	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-swc.md
SymPy	Applying as separate organization	https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2016-Ideas

NumFOCUS' Affiliated Projects GSoC Status

Project	Status	Ideas Pages
Bokeh	Unknown
Cython	Unknown
Dask	Unknown
DyND	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-dynd.md
Gensim	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim/wiki/Student-Projects
Numba	Unknown
Orange	Applying as separate organization	https://github.com/biolab/orange3/wiki/GSoC-2016#project-ideas
PythonXY	Unknown
scikit-bio	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-biocore.md
scikit-image	Unknown
scikit-learn	Unknown
SciPy	Applying under PSF umbrella	https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016
Spyder	Unknown
Statmodels	Applying as separate organization	https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2016
Theano	Unknown
yt	Under OpenAstronomy	http://openastronomy.org/gsoc/gsoc2016/ideas.html

Other Projects GSoC Status

This session intend to help students to find mentoring organizations that could receive their applications.

Project	Status	Ideas Pages
Dipy	Applying under PSF umbrella	https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016
JuliaOpt	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-juliaopt.md
JuliaQuantum	Applying under NumFOCUS umbrella	https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2016/ideas-list-juliaquantum.md