Re: Google's "summer of code"

[David Bateman]

Carlos Villegas wrote:
> Hi, I am PhD candidate new with octave but several years working with 
> matlab for engineering control design and would be very interested in 
> participating with octave at google summer of code (through the GNU 
> project). Is there anybody who would be willing to mentor? I can do C 
> programming, bash scripting and some python.
>
> regards,
>
> Carlos
>   
Carlos,

I think the major programming projects in octave will require the use of 
C++. Not saying that there isn't something you couldn't do with the 
profile you give above, but that it might not be interesting to you. 
Alternatively, there are some large projects that might be limited to 
using m-files only. Perhaps the thing for you to do is regard the 
maintainers lists, the PROJECTS file, etc and find a project that 
interests you, then come and ask for a mentor stating the project that 
interests you.. You'll probably get a lot further that way.

Best of Luck
David