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=== Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating? === | === Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating? === | ||
Octave participated with one student under the auspices of the GNU project. Due to the success of that experience, where many members of the Octave community helped mentor Daniel Kraft, we want to try again. | Octave participated last year with one student under the auspices of the GNU project. Due to the success of that experience, where many members of the Octave community helped mentor the student, Daniel Kraft, we want to try again. | ||
We | We hope to get good code from interested students and ideally establish a line of collaboration with them for the future. We also want to raise awareness of Octave amongst the free software community. | ||
Google Summer of Code represents a unique opportunity to pump up work into highly needed low level improvements to Octave, as well as high level field-specific functionality. We believe the interaction with fresh minds will bring not only new code to Octave but also will augment the developers group. | Google Summer of Code represents a unique opportunity to pump up work into highly needed low level improvements to Octave, as well as high level field-specific functionality. We believe the interaction with fresh minds will bring not only new code to Octave but also will augment the developers group. | ||