{"id":614,"date":"2014-02-25T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-05-24T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T13:30:52","slug":"google-summer-of-code-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Google Summer of Code 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/homepage\/google\/gsoc2014\">Google&#8217;s Summer of Code<\/a> is an annual event in which Google will pay a bunch of students to spend the summer writing code for open-source projects.<\/p>\n<p>As last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\">Sage<\/a>\u00a0is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/org2\/google\/gsoc2014\/sagemath\">mentoring organizations<\/a>, and as last year, we are hoping to have one of about 4 students work on Sage&#8217;s matroid capabilities. We are looking for an undergraduate or graduate student who<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knows a bit of matroid theory (some possible topics require more knowledge than others)<\/li>\n<li>Has some programming experience, preferably in Python<\/li>\n<li>Wants to work on building exciting mathematics software for 3 months during the summer<\/li>\n<li>Would like the word &#8220;Google&#8221; on his or her CV<\/li>\n<li>Is interested in earning 5500 US dollars and a t-shirt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/15v7lXZR1U4H2pT21d2fyPduYGb74JAFjkXJ6CWYmYfw\/pub#h.iz8icg54n51\">ideas page<\/a>, a list of possible features to work on can be found. Students must produce a detailed proposal including a timeline with milestones. Early interaction with the mentors is important: we want to know you&#8217;re serious about this, and able to deliver. The place for this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/sage-gsoc\">sage-gsoc Google group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you know an interested student, send her or him to this post. If you <em>are<\/em> an interested student, study the links above to figure out the requirements, timeline, etc. One important date: applications must be in on<\/p>\n<h1>MARCH 21<\/h1>\n<p>and we&#8217;d like to start working on the proposal with you well before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Summer of Code is an annual event in which Google will pay a bunch of students to spend the summer writing code for open-source projects. As last year, Sage\u00a0is one of the mentoring organizations, and as last year, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matroids","category-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}