GSoC: Announcing accepted students and projects 2015

[Jackson Isaac]

Hi Clemens,

Thanks for your mail.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for the Google Summer of Code program 2015 our organization, The
> MacPorts Project, got three slots assigned. We filled them based on the
> quality of the proposals and on the limited mentor capacities we have.
>
> We received about as many proposals as last year. Overall, we'd would
> like to see a few more proposals. Next year, if you happen to know
> somebody who is a student and uses a Mac, spread the word.
>

My University will surely remember a organization know as "MacPorts"
;) which stands out from the regular KDE, GNOME and Mozilla. My
friends also remember it as Apple project.


> This summer, MacPorts will mentor the following students and projects:
>
>
> Generate Portfiles (a Portfile generation framework)
>     Student: Chunyang Xu
>     Mentor:  Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
>
> Revitalizing Pallet
>     Student: Kyle Sammons (ksammons)
>     Mentor:  Michael Dickens (michaelld)
>
> Dependency Calculation using SAT solving
>     Student: Jackson Isaac
>     Mentor:  Clemens Lang (cal)
>
>
>
> Chunyang, Kyle, Jackson, welcome (back) to our community!
>
> Although you have already introduced yourself on the mailing list with
> your proposals, it would probably be a good idea if you three could
> reply with a few words about your upcoming projects.
>

My project idea is to improve the dependency calculation using a
external SAT solver, libsolv to be precise.

As you mentioned 'few words', details can be found at my blog -
https://jacksonisaac.wordpress.com/gsoc-2015/

P.S. - Actually I was too lazy :P

> Looking forward to a Summer of Code,
> Clemens



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Jackson Isaac
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
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