GSoC?

wxPython Users
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Just out of curiosity, I guess we are not going to push for a wxPython
GSoC this year as well, are we?

Andrea.

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Just out of curiosity, I guess we are not going to push for a wxPython
GSoC this year as well, are we?

well, as I understand it, Google decided a couple years ago to support
fewer, larger projects, so smallish ones like wxPython should join
forces with the PSF or something, rather than submitting individually.

But it would take someone to champian that cause the PSF (or whoever
is fronting Python for GSoC).

-Chris

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana@gmail.com> wrote:

Andrea.

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well, as I understand it, Google decided a couple years ago to support
fewer, larger projects, so smallish ones like wxPython should join

forces with the PSF or something, rather than submitting individually.

But it would take someone to champian that cause the PSF (or whoever

is fronting Python for GSoC).

-Chris

I have no knowledge of this, but Chris, what makes you think that? From looking at the FAQ on the GSoC site, this answer and its numbers doesn’t suggest that to me:

5. How many mentoring organizations does Google expect to take part in the program?

We worked with 40 organizations in 2005, over 100 in 2006, over 130 in 2007, 175 in 2008, 150 in 2009, 150 in 2010, 175 in 2011, and 180 in 2012. We expect a similar amount to 2012 in 2013.

And they also have a list of the previous years’ mentoring organizations, and although there are some very big ones on there, they don’t all seem that big.

I always think it would be great to have wxPython in the GSoC. Is there anything the community can do to help with this (assuming it is desirable)?

Che

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    well, as I understand it, Google decided a couple years ago to support

    fewer, larger projects, so smallish ones like wxPython should join
    forces with the PSF or something, rather than submitting individually.

I have no knowledge of this, but Chris, what makes you think that?

Because that was the reason given when we were in the GSoC for two or three years and then they didn't choose us the following year. Or maybe it was the reason given to the wxWidgets project one year, I don't remember for sure.

I don't really think that is the real reason, just an excuse that somebody was making at the time. From what I've read in the past I think that there is a review process where each of projects that sign up are considered for 30 seconds or so and a gut feel for things like popularity, their ability to draw students attention, their use of or relationship to new technologies, past involvements and performance in GSoC, and probably other intangible things are evaluated and the project is given a yes/no and that is it.

I always think it would be great to have wxPython in the GSoC. Is there
anything the community can do to help with this (assuming it is desirable)?

I really don't have the time to be involved this year, except perhaps as a figurehead administrator. But if somebody wants to take it on and run things for us then go for it. Just let me know.

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well, as I understand it, Google decided a couple years ago to support

fewer, larger projects, so smallish ones like wxPython should join
forces with the PSF or something, rather than submitting individually.

I have no knowledge of this, but Chris, what makes you think that? From
looking at the FAQ on the GSoC site, this answer and its numbers doesn't
suggest that to me:

5. How many mentoring organizations does Google expect to take part in the
program?

We worked with 40 organizations in 2005, over 100 in 2006, over 130 in 2007,
175 in 2008, 150 in 2009, 150 in 2010, 175 in 2011, and 180 in 2012. We
expect a similar amount to 2012 in 2013.

well, I see a drop from 175 in 2008 to 150 in 2009 -- was that the
year wxPython got rejected?

And maybe it wasn't that global, but they wanted to see projects like
particular python packages merged with the general python project --
that makes some sense, it shifts the burdon of deciding what's
important to python to the python community itself.

But either way, we need to get organized as a community ourselves, and
then decide if we want to apply on our own, or as part of a greater
python application.

I always think it would be great to have wxPython in the GSoC. Is there
anything the community can do to help with this (assuming it is desirable)?

I'll chip in, and maybe even mentor, but I dont have time to drive the train.

-Chris

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Chris said, “Well, as I understand it, Google decided a couple years ago to support fewer, larger projects, so smallish ones like wxPython should join forces with the PSF or something, rather than submitting individually.”

I’m surprised to hear wxPython being called “smallish”. It looms very large to me! Dunno what counts as big or small, but: I recently acquired the capability to track downloads of VPython, though I already knew there were two big download spikes at the beginning of academic semesters, when students download VPython to use in classes. One such spike was last month (Jan. 2013) when there were about 10,000 downloads, large enough to overrun my download allowance on vpython.org (I had to pay extra). So I moved the downloads to sourceforge.net (which I had abandoned for the purposes years ago for various reasons), and SF tracks downloads in detail. This month is a more normal month, running at a rate of about 3000 downloads per month. Half of these are downloads of the new VPython 6 based on wxPython. So maybe wxPython has just gotten a little bigger? Soon all the downloads will be wxPython-based, even if it turns out to be impossible to offer one particular flavor, for 64-bit Python 3.2 on Windows.