GSoC withdrawal

This is going to be weird. I came to this decision after a long long thought process which has been invading my mind for some days now.

Before applying to GSoC, I had applied to a bunch of physics REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates); almost all rejected but one I was awaiting the decision, which eventually offered me a position. Both of these summer opportunities are great and since I do not want to miss any of these, I had a very hard time deciding what to do.

So, now, I decide to go officially with physics REU because I can still continue contributing to SymPy and work on my project without officially enrolling on GSoC, during my free time. I should confess here that for about a week, I was also thinking to do both SoC and REU; I wish I could.

Once again, I apologize for this late withdrawal.

This is what I emailed to my mentor Michael, Leslie, and Ondrej about my GSoC withdrawal. I also apologize to other SymPy applicants through this post.

Google Summer of Code 2008

I am starting this blog to document my Summer of Code proceedings.

My application SymPy: Improving the Plotting Module and a Pure Python TeX Engine was accepted under Python Software Foundation. I would like to thank Google, PSF, all SymPy people (especially Ondrej), and my mentor for the Summer of Code Michael Droettboom.

I will do my best to complete my project and I will continue contributing to SymPy even after that.

This blog will probably go beyond summer of code and this summer.