[scilab-Users] Contributing to Scilab

[Eduardo Tarasiuk]

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Thanks very much !
   Eduardo

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From: Sylvestre Ledru [mailto:sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org] 
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Subject: Re: [scilab-Users] Contributing to Scilab

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Hello,

Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 07:40 +0200, Eduardo Tarasiuk a écrit :
> Dear Sirs
> 
> Our company is mentoring students, finishing their first degree in
> Mathematics and Computer Science.
> We propose projects, and the students may (or may not) chose one of
> them.
> Each project is done by two students during one academic semester and
> their work is recognized in their University.
> We are willing to do take advantage of this relationship to contribute
> to Scilab by adding functionality needed by us and to release the code
> as 
> Open Source according to the Scilab Licensing, for the benefit of
> everyone, using this wonderful Software.
Nice to hear that!

> My questions are:
> 
>    - Is any mechanism except the GSoC to contribute to Scilab.
Of course. The GSoC is just a way to organise things...
There are many ways to contribute to Scilab:
* Develop new Scilab modules
* Contribute and improve some already existing modules:
http://forge.scilab.org/
* Contribute to the Scilab base code:
	- Help us by fixing bugs (many of them are not hard to fix)
	http://bugzilla.scilab.org/
	- Help us to develop the new upcoming features (the roadmap will
be
soon published) 
	- Improve some components (documentation, performances, etc).
etc.

>    - Can I receive a List of a URL to the list of projects you are
> interested in ?. The status of the GSoC projects is not clear in
Scilab
> site, 
>      which projects are finished which not, probably you have a more
> updated list.
Here is the list of ideas:
http://wiki.scilab.org/Ideas_of_development_for_Scilab
We are in touch with the students in order to publish a list of all
Scilab modules developed in the context of the GSoC and their status. 
Anyway, most of them reached a good quality and we just need to
"advertise" more their work.

>    - Is it possible to have contact with a Mentor person in Scilab
team
> (during the project/s)  for the students, for questions, problems that
> the students may encounter and that we in the company are not capable
of
> answer or resolve ?
Sure, at the beginning, it would be me and, at first, I will redirect
your questions to a Scilab developer if I cannot answer them.

> We are willing to contribute using your (Scilab) standards in Software
> Writing, Documentation and of course License, and we may need some
help
> and information on this too.
Sure. 
Don't hesitate to ask any question.

Sylvestre
PS: The dev at lists.scilab.org ML is more appropriate for such
discussions ;)