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Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas
- From: Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse dot cz>
- To: Christopher Dimech <dimech at gmx dot com>
- Cc: gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Janus Weil <janus at gcc dot gnu dot org>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:59:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas
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Hi Christopher,
On Thu, Feb 15 2018, Janus Weil wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> 2018-02-15 11:52 GMT+01:00 Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>:
>> I am the administrator of GNU Behistun, a package designed
>> to image the internal constituents of the subsurface using seismic waves.
>> It is written in Fortran and uses gfortran. I am not sure how well you
>> think it fits in your GSoC project. Does related work under your proposal
>> have to focus on development of the gcc compiler itself, or would it also
>> allow work on peripheral associations.
>
> I don't quite think this is appropriate for GCC as a mentoring org. It
> might fit better under the "GNU" umbrella, which also seems to be a
> mentoring org in this year's GSoC and lists all kinds of GNU projects:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2018.html
I completely agree with Janus. I believe GNU project will accommodate
your needs better.
Thanks,
Martin