[Dune-devel] GSoC 2025: Ideas list

[Markus Blatt]

Hi,

Am Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:22:53AM +0100 schrieb Christoph Grüninger:
>I put most of your ideas from your emails to the ideas list
>https://www.dune-project.org/community/contributing/#project-ideas
>Please have a look and correct my mistakes and extend what I added.
>
>I left out the few ideas I did not understand myself. Further, 
>twists is probably too political to be a good project.
>

thanks a lot. I think we will need to iterate a bit on this until next
Tuesday to make this a nice application. Let's apply when we think the
list is decent enough.

This is still a rather long list with many old projects.

We are only expecting 2 students so too many similar projects might
not make sense. There are a lot of Grid backends proposed here.
Do they all make still sense? Can we narrow them down?

I think we should make sure that each project on the list also
has suitable mentors. Ideas with nobody willing to mentor should
be removed from the final list or put into an extra section.
This seems fair to applicants.

Each project on the final list should also have a decent description.
This should be understandable also for novice DUNE users.

Why might also want work a bit on our presentation. Maybe a dedicated GSoc 2025
project ideas page makes sense to make clear that we are applying this year.
Old  stuff and general contribution guidelines should maybe be separate.

So let's try to get this into shape. It is our application both to Google
and the students.

So maybe we should proceed like this:

If a project is dear to you, then please work on the decription. Make sure
it has a speaky title and a decent description. Make sure that there is an
estimate on it, a difficulty level on it. If you are able to
mentor then please add yourself to it. Otherwise hope for others or try to
pursuade them.

Please do this in a PR for a single project in [1]

If you need inspiration look at past projects [2], e.g. MBDyn [3]

We do this until sunday and then we try to move stuff to a more dedicated
page and improve presentation.

How does that sound?

Best,

Markus

[1] https://gitlab.dune-project.org/infrastructure/dune-website
[2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2024/organizations
[3] https://public.gitlab.polimi.it/DAER/mbdyn/-/wikis/GSoC-Project-Ideas