[Axiom-developer] address@hidden: Re: [Soc2006support] Summer of Code application]

[root]

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:33:08 -0700
From: Leslie Hawthorn <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
Organization: Google Inc.
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Soc2006support] Summer of Code application

Hello Tim,

Thank you for your application and your interest in Summer of Code 2006. 
  Unfortunately, we cannot offer Axiom admission to the program at this 
time.  Best of luck to you and your colleagues with your project and all 
your future endeavors.

Kind regards,
LH

root wrote:
> 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 progress 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
> 
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Leslie Hawthorn
Open Source Program Coordinator
Google Inc.
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