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Our first year in GSoC as an independent organization was 2014. 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 SOCiS who successfully improved Octave's ordinary differential equation solvers.
Our first year in GSoC as an independent organization was 2014. 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 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. Two of the students are now frequent Octave contributors and another is a mentor for this year.


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