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Octave's application for GSoC 2014. | Octave's application for GSoC 2014. | ||
=== Organization | === Organization ID === | ||
Octave | Octave | ||
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GNU Octave | GNU Octave | ||
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GNU Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is a free numerical computing | GNU Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is a free numerical computing | ||
environment largely compatible with Matlab. [[User:jwe|John W. Eaton]] began the project in 1992 and remains the primary maintainer. Development is quite active with more than 20 volunteers currently involved. Octave is also widely used in teaching, industry, and research. It has gained attention as the recommended tool for a number of distributed online courses such as Stanford's machine learning course | environment largely compatible with Matlab. [[User:jwe|John W. Eaton]] began the project in 1992 and remains the primary maintainer. Development is quite active with more than 20 volunteers currently involved. Octave is also widely used in teaching, industry, and research. It has gained attention as the recommended tool for a number of distributed online courses such as Stanford's machine learning course (https://www.coursera.org/course/ml). | ||
GNU Octave has an extensive core of functions useful for computations | GNU Octave has an extensive core of functions useful for computations | ||
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Recent and ongoing improvements include a GUI and just-in-time compilation capabilities, both of which started as GSoC projects. | Recent and ongoing improvements include a GUI and just-in-time compilation capabilities, both of which started as GSoC projects. | ||
=== Tags === | |||
c++, mathematics, math, numerical, matlab, mercurial, scientific, computing | |||
=== Organization home page url === | === Organization home page url === | ||
http://www.octave.org | http://www.octave.org | ||
Logo: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/raw-file/155d8e90ee1f/doc/icons/octave-logo.png | |||
Blog: http://planet.octave.org/ | |||
Feed: http://planet.octave.org/atom.xml | |||
=== Main organization license === | === Main organization license === | ||
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=== What is the main development mailing list for your organization? === | === What is the main development mailing list for your organization? === | ||
maintainers@octave.org | maintainers@octave.org (https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/octave-maintainers) | ||
=== What is the main IRC channel for your organization? === | === What is the main IRC channel for your organization? === | ||
irc://irc.freenode.net/octave | |||
=== What criteria did you use to select | === How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them? === | ||
Each project | We have about 10 contributors have mentored previous summer projects and continue to be active participants in the Octave community | ||
Each project will include at least one core Octave developer as mentor. These | |||
are proven, veteran members of the project, active in its development, and familiar | are proven, veteran members of the project, active in its development, and familiar | ||
with the code base. | with the code base. | ||
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mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free software projects. The vast | mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free software projects. The vast | ||
majority of our mentors have been involved in Octave development | majority of our mentors have been involved in Octave development | ||
for several years, and | for several years, and new mentors with be paired with more experienced ones. | ||
=== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === | === What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === | ||
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We will constantly merge their code into our codebase, and GNU Octave is a | We will constantly merge their code into our codebase, and GNU Octave is a | ||
project with many test users that give constant feedback on new features and bug | project with many test users that give constant feedback on new features and bug | ||
reports. | reports. As participants in the mailing lists and bug tracker, students get the feeling of doing | ||
something that is being used by others, and that is useful to the community from | something that is being used by others, and that is useful to the community from | ||
the very start. | the very start. | ||
In addition, students | In addition, many GSoC students will likely use Octave during their academic | ||
year and | year and in during their professional careers. As such, they are prone to | ||
stay involved with its development, even if at a lower lever than during the | stay involved with its development, even if at a lower lever than during the | ||
summer. | summer. | ||
Finally, we organize a developers summit during the summer and have in previous | Finally, we organize a developers' summit during the summer and have in previous | ||
years provided | years provided help for GSoC students to attend. This strengthens the | ||
relationships between community members and the new students. While only one of | relationships between community members and the new students. While only one of | ||
the previous GSoC students is currently a core developer, several continued with | the previous GSoC students is currently a core developer, several continued with | ||
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No. | No. | ||
[[Category:Summer of Code]] | |||
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