Google Summer of Code 2016 Only A Few Hours Left

[Dave via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 21:10:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
> On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 17:03:57 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
> wrote:
>> The GSOC deadline is Feb 19th 19:00 UTC (or 2 PM Wawa time) so 
>> any last ideas for the Idea's page are welcome.
>>
>> Our application is completed, but changes can still be made to 
>> the ideas page.  In fact I suppose we can go on making 
>> modifications even after the deadline, as I have no idea at 
>> what time Google takes the snapshots of these pages for 
>> evaluation.  Thanks to Martin Nowak's suggestion we are now 
>> participating as "The D Foundation" (rather than Digital Mars).
>>
>> Thanks to all who have helped out to this point.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Craig
>
> D is a fantastic efficient and fast replacement of Python which 
> even has great plotting and other analysis features as ggplotd! 
> To gain traction in numerical and statistical computing it is 
> important to provide great optimization, automatic differential 
> (AD) (reversed-mode AD (e.g. in mc-stan.org for Bayesian stuff) 
> and/or forward-mode as e.g. for R at GSOC-2010 - there is no 
> reason for numerical diff these days anymore, and you may 
> mess-up your stuff using it!), and Bayesian routines. D is 
> laking on these basic features (my personal opinion - correct 
> me if I am wrong).
>
> Good starting points for a GSOC project would be "to port" 
> mc-stan.org or some optimization algorithms from Coin-OR.org 
> (please let me be more particular and independent of existing 
> work if there is any interest for such a project!).
>
> I am not a D specialist but getting more and more into it and 
> up to happily mentor this GSOC-project (maybe there would be 
> (co-)mentors with more D experiences).
>
> (I already initiated a successful GSOC application on 
> algorithmic differentiation in R together with John Nash for 
> GSOC 2010 (student: Chidambaram Annamalai) - unfortunately I 
> did not have the capacity to mentor/support the project as I 
> had to finish my PhD during this time)


Sorry, I just missed that the deadline  is UTC 19:00. Maybe next 
year :-)