Re: [Quantlib-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Alok <qua...@bi...>]

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?

>
> 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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