Re: [Quantlib-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On 20 February 2012 at 00:06, Alok wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <ed...@de...> wrote:
| >
| > On 19 February 2012 at 22:58, Alok wrote:
| > | So I've explored the SourceForge project page some more and found the
| > | feature requests page on the tracker. And this entry by
| > | Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) struck me as interesting.
| > |
| > | http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1651713&group_id=12740&atid=362740
| > |
| > | I would appreciate it very much if someone can elaborate on what sort
| > | of extension would someone be looking for. I do know that RQuantLib
| > | was developed as a Summer of Code project to extend QuantLib to the
| > | R-Project in 2009.
| >
| > I was about to comment on this (as I was the person suggesting that work and
| > the mentor -- that project worked out well).
| 
| Would you be interested in mentoring for the Google Summer of Code
| again? I see from the RQuantLib page
| http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rquantlib.html that: "There are lots
| more financial instruments covered in QuantLib. RQuantLib should grow
| to accomodate these. Help in writing the R wrappers would accelerate
| the provision of RQuantLib hooks for these."
| 
| How is the coverage of RQuantLib now? I am eager for an opportunity in
| extending QuantLib for either R or ROOT. What is your view on this?

I am always looking for people with C++ and R skills to help on RQuantLib. 
It is a terrific little project with still too little coverage of QuantLib.

It has spawned off Rcpp (as a generic C++ to R and back wrapping mechanism)
which soaked up most of my (and Romain's) time over the last few years. 

If you are interested, and have the skills to work on this, the R Project has
been a steady participant in GSoC. So you could apply there, and we could work
something out for RQuantLib. That said, it may of interest to get QL over
into GSoC in same form too.  

As for ROOT, I can't comment as I only know of it, but have never used it in
any capacity.

Dirk
 
| >
| > We could possibly have people work in QL under different umbrella
| > organisations too.  I know Portland St often provided a home.
| >
| > The real shortage may be on skilled mentors with a little bit of time. Google
| > Summer of Code is a nice program, and it could fit for QuantLib Extension
| > Proposals.
| >
| > Dirk
| >
| >
| > | Any ideas/thoughts/advise regarding this would be much appreciated.
| > |
| > | best regards,
| > | Alok
| > |
| > | On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Alok <qua...@bi...> wrote:
| > | > Hello,
| > | >
| > | > Google has announced its Summer of Code again for this year
| > | > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 . And I
| > | > was wondering if there are any ideas for QuantLib projects for this
| > | > program. I would love to hear from prospective mentors about
| > | > challenges that an experienced C++ developer can contribute towards
| > | > this effort for 2-3 months over the summer. Please do respond even if
| > | > you don't have the time to participate in the program. I'll collect
| > | > ideas from the responses and post it onto a handy wiki page for later
| > | > use.
| > | >
| > | > p.s. I notice that there is a nice GitHub QuantLib repository at
| > | > https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib/commits/master I wonder how far
| > | > behind or incomplete it is from the project svn repository at
| > | > https://quantlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quantlib/trunk. The
| > | > checkout from svn trunk clocked at 573MB. And I guess that with a few
| > | > more MBs I might as well get the whole project history offline from
| > | > GitHub instead of running expensive svn checkouts.
| > | >
| > | > best regards,
| > | > Alok
| > |
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