GSoC Student Applications Accepted

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce that 36 applications from students wishing to participate in the Google Summer of Code program have been accepted with Python-related projects sponsored by the PSF.

Accepted Projects

Below is a list of the projects accepted for this summer. The links point to the application abstracts on the GSoC site, so click through for more details about a given project.

Name	Project Title
Amaury Medeiros	PySoy’s interactive widgets
Anthus Williams	Mesh morphs for PySoy
Bart Baker	statsmodels times series and state-space model estimation
Ben Edwards	Implement Community Detection Algorithms in NetworkX
Benedict Stein	Mailman: # Complete the Django web u/i
Boris FIELD	PYpi Test Infrastructure
Daniel Kluev	Pyjamas - in-browser python interpreter
Daniel Neuhäuser	Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)
Danilo Freitas	Turn Codespeed into a multi-project, statistically savvy application
Douglas Morato	TRYTON : Add full text search capabilities on Tryton records
Drew Rodman	Mailman 3 Pipermail SQL conversion and upgrade script
Dushyant Bansal	Developing Archives for Mailman 3
Ezio Melotti	Enhancements to the Python issue tracker
Greg Slodkowicz	Python Import Engine
Henri Bollig	Tryton, Pysql, python module to generate SQL strings
Xu Dehai	fulfil setuptools features for distutils2
Idan Kamara	Mercurials command server
Joe Dallago	Pylons Project - Porting Pyramid to Python 3
Joel Bohman	Porting Pyramid to Python 3
Jon Neal	Game Networking using ICE-UDP for pysoy
Juhani Åhman	PySoy: Enhanced 2.5D scenes
Mark Florisson	Cython: Supporting Parallelism, Templates and Typed Views on Memory
Max Holtzberg	Implementing a POS system for the Tryton project
Mayank Singh	Motion-sensing as an alternative user input for PySoy games
Pieter Holtzhausen	Focused improvements to scikits.image
Putra Manggala	NetworkX: More Flow!
Rodrigo Hübner	A Rich Text Editor for Tryton Client
Romain Guillebert	Python backend for Cython using PyPy’s FFI
Sara Foster	PySoy Scene Designer
Sara Kazemi	Creature Artificial Emotion [PySoy]
Martin Leon Sébastien	[Tryton]Relatorio: FODT format, embed opendocument and support for opendocument spreadsheet.
Torsten Becker	Implementing a Flexible String Representation for Python Based on PEP 393
Vlad Niculae	Dictionary learning in scikits.learn
Wojciech Wojtyniak	Implementing parallel builds of Python’s modules
Yeswanth Swami	PyTI(PyPI Testing Infrastructure)
Yun Lee	Improve Mercurial’s built-in help

Statistics

This has been a growth year for the PSF’s involvement in GSoC. We have had the largest group of applicants and mentors since we began participating in the program, up about 10% from last year. Students submitted 89 applications, both for core Python development work and for one of the projects being sponsored by the PSF. The community has provided 72 mentors to help the students.

Increasing Diversity

The PSF is committed to increasing the diversity of the Python community. One way we have been working toward that goal is by encouraging women and other minorities to apply to participate in GSoC through one of the PSF-sponsored projects. This year, three of the 36 accepted applications are from women. That is an improvement over past years, but we still have work to do to raise the participation rate further.

What Next?

The GSoC program is now in the Community Bonding Period. Community members should watch for messages from the student participants on mailing lists and in other forums, and take the opportunity to get to know them. This is also a good time to introduce them to the development tools and processes, and answer questions about how patches are reviewed and approved or how best to communicate with other team members.

For more details about the schedule, see the GSoC timeline on the project web site.