[Axiom-developer] Summer of Code application

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I would like to submit Axiom as a Summer of Code project for 2006.

We successfully participated last year as a subproject of the LispNYC group.

This year, in preparation for participation in the Summer of Code program,
we have collected and published a series of possible projects at

  http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SummerOfCode

Axiom is a large, general purpose computer algebra system. It used to 
be a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple. It is now free and
open source (Modified BSD). It has been active since 2001 and is hosted
at both Sourceforge and Savannah (FSF site). See

  http://wiki.axiom-developer.org
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/axiom

Since Axiom is a large project we have a wide range of possible areas
of contribution from documentation all the way to algebra code. There
are projects for user interface, literate programming, graphics, etc.

We are able to review student proposals as well as direct projects
selected from our proposal list. We have recently established a 
connection to RISC-Linz (Research in Symbolic Computation in Austria),
a department at the University of Linz. In addition we have had an
ongoing student collaboration with the City College of New York's
CAISS laboratory working on promoting Axiom as a science platform.
See 

  http://daly.axiom-developer.org/doyen

but we could make much faster project if we could find funding for
student participation.

We have tried to create an Axiom Foundation to pay for work on supported
projects but that has not been successful. Open source funding is always
a challenge.

Tim Daly
Axiom Lead Developer.
address@hidden