Re: participating in Octave

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Il 06/mag/2014 07:28 "Tom Van Steenkiste" <address@hidden>
> ha scritto:
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>> Dear all
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>> I've seen the mail concerning the GNU Octave project for SOCIS. And I'm
>> very interested in participating in this project this summer.
>
> Welcome!
>
> I'm a computer science engineering student currently enrolled in third
> bachelor year at the university of Ghent. My main interests are the projects
> with mathematical background and C++ programming, especially the projects
> concerning matrices.
>>
>
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>> This would be the first time I've worked on Octave. However, I'm very keen
>> to learn. Would this be a problem?
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> No that is not a problem.
> Se usually ask new applicants to to introduce themselves and demonstrate
> their coding skills by contributing a fix to some Octave bug.
>
> Given tour background AMD interests i would suggest you try this one:
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> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34850
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> Do you think you could work on that?
>
> I've also checked the
> timeline(http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/?q=timeline)  and since I still
> have some exams until the 19th of June, would it perhaps be possible to end
> in September instead of August?
>
> Last year the project starter with 3 months delay due to some accounting
> issues at ESA so i guess there is some flexibility. This should ne
> intentended reciprocally though: you should ne ready to work for 3 full
> months even if there is some delay that causes the project to overlap with
> your semestre start.
> Would you OK with that?
>
>
>>
>> I would love to be able to join the project this summer. Are there any
>> specific projects listed in Octave I can choose at the university of Ghent
>> or are all projects available?
>
> Showing your ability to build a reasonable plan for a project is parte of
> the selection processo so look at the project ideas on the wiki page for
> inspiration and start diacussing what you would like to work on.
>
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> With kind regards
>>
>> Tom Van Steenkiste
>>
> Good luck,
> c.

Tom,

If you need help to start, check Octave manual and do not hesitate to
ask around in the IRC channel.

Cheers