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=== If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. === | === If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. === | ||
Our first year in GSoC as an independent organization was 2014 | Our first year in GSoC as an independent organization was 2014 and we had 3 participating students, who pursued work in approximate matrix factorization, efficient handling of sparse matrices, and finite element methods for solving partial differential equations. While there were some challenges related to mentor availability in one case, all 3 of the students passed and made contributions which have been incorporated into Octave. We also had one student enrolled under [http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/ ESA Summer of Code in Space (SoCiS)] who successfully improved Octave's ordinary differential equation solvers. | ||
In addition, we also mentored GSoC students on the years 2012 and 2013 under the umbrella of the GNU project. All projects from those years were merged into Octave's development branch or into an Octave Forge package, and have since been released. The GUI project started as GSoC project and its further refinement has been the major feature of the last Octave release. Several of the students | In addition, we also mentored GSoC and SoCiS students on the years 2012 and 2013 under the umbrella of the GNU project. In total, counting both GSoC and SoCiS, we have mentored a total of 16 students. All projects from those years were merged into Octave's development branch or into an Octave Forge package, and have since been released. The GUI project started as GSoC project and its further refinement has been the major feature of the last Octave release. Several of the students continued their involvement with the project and the community, four of them have become core developers, and two mentors are mentors for new students. | ||
=== If you chose "new" in the dropdown above, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? === | === If you chose "new" in the dropdown above, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? === | ||