[Scilab-Dev] Google Summer of Code / Metanet-Boost.graph

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org
Mon Mar 30 11:45:11 CEST 2009


Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 01:28 -0500, Emmanuel Goossaert a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
>     I am interested in participating in GSoC under Scilab, for the
> project Metanet-Boost.graph, this is why I am contacting you. I am
> also interested by the project SNNS, for which I have contacted Mr.
> Yann Colette. I learned about GSoC just two days ago, so it took me
> some time to review all the mentoring organizations, and to finally be
> sure that the one I was the more interested in was Scilab.
Nice !

>     Also, I will be doing my Master's thesis during the summer, which
> will take me around 25 hours per week. Because I am living on the
> campus of my university situated in the middle of nowhere
What is the middle of nowhere ? Orléans ?

> , I have a lot of spare time. I can work on another project 40 hours a week and
> still have some spare time remaining. Do you think that my work on my
> thesis would prevent me from being seriously considered as a candidate
> in GSoC for Scilab/Metanet-Boost.graph?
As long as you stick to your planning, it is fine.

>     I know that compared to other participants I am already late.
It doesn't matter. The important thing is to have a good proposal at the
end of the week.

> Since the deadline is next Friday, I think I'll spend my week on
> preparing my applications. I am planning to work on a first version of
> an application on Monday, and get it ready for Tuesday morning. I know
> that with GSoC, the all of you must be very busy, but would you mind
> if I sent this application to this email group or to a particular
> mentor, so that you can review it and tell me if it needs to be
> enhanced?
You can contact Collette Yann <ycollette at free.fr> (he is the one who added the Boost.graph idea) and/or me.

>     I am interested in working on an improvement of Metanet using
> Boost.graph because I think for an application such as Scilab, having
> efficient graph implementation and interfacing is a major concern.
> Such an improvement would benefit to a lot of users in the Scilab
> community, which is not the case for most of the other projects.
> Furthermore, I have strong skills in C++, I have been using the Boost
> library in previous projects, and I have an experience of Fortran 90.
> Also, I am using matlab every day for my thesis, therefore I'll be
> able to sneak into Matlab BGL to grab some ideas. This graph project
> is a non-trivial challenging project, for which I think I have the
> necessary skills.
OK
It is indeed a nice idea.

Sylvestre





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