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=== Did your organization participate in past Google Summer of Codes? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. ===
=== Did your organization participate in past Google Summer of Codes? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. ===


Yes, we participated in GSoC each year since 2011 under GNU and in these last 3 years, 9 students have contributed to the Octave project through GSoC. Additionally, we have been a mentoring organization for the European Space Agency (ESA) Summer of Code in Space (http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/) through which we had 3 more other students. Students working with us have made valuable contributions all of which is live and in our main source tree. These contributions covered many different areas, improving Octave's usability in functionality, undertaking such tasks as adding just-in-time compilation support, geometric integration algorithms, and finite element modeling capabilities.
Yes, we participated in GSoC last year independently (see above for details) and during 2011-2013 under GNU, for a total of 12 students who contributed to the Octave project through GSoC. Additionally, we have been a mentoring organization for the European Space Agency (ESA) Summer of Code in Space (SoCiS) through which we had 4 more students. Students working with us have made valuable contributions which are live and in our main source tree. These contributions covered many different areas, improving Octave's usability in functionality, undertaking such tasks as adding just-in-time compilation support, geometric integration algorithms, and finite element modeling capabilities.


The challenges are managing very diverse problem domains and finding
The challenges are managing very diverse problem domains and finding people who are competent in all of them.  We have not had trouble keeping students interested, although we have seen lulls in their productive output at times, which were always thankfully remedied with a little prodding.
people who are competent in all of them.  We have not had trouble keeping
students interested, although we have seen lulls in their productive output a few
times, which were always thankfully remedied with a little prodding.


Summarizing, we have previously mentored a total number of 12 students through different programs, all of them a successful experience which created useful code for the project and community. Because of this, we believe that Octave is a suitable project, capable to mentor students.
Summarizing, we have previously mentored a total of 16 students through different programs, all of them having successful experiences which created useful code for the project and community. Because of this, we believe that Octave is a suitable project for GSoC with the capability to mentor students and benefit from their contribution.


=== What is the URL for your Ideas page? ===
=== What is the URL for your Ideas page? ===
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