Re: [gnu-soc] Gnuastro C library Python/R/Julia wrappers for GSOC 2020

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Thanks a lot Jose,

I also added a link to that page in Gnuastro's page (under "Getting 
involved"/contribute part):

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/#contribute

Just one thing: in the webpage, I just noticed that the "Skills 
required" and "Contact" part of the two project for Gnuastro are both 
under the second idea.

To avoid confusion, it would be good if the "C programming, image 
processing" part goes under the first idea.

While doing so, can you also remove the "(optional)" part? After some 
thought, it occurred to me that it would be hard for someone to do that 
project if they aren't familiar with basic image processing algorithms.

Thanks again for organizing this,
Cheers,
Mohammad

On 2/13/20 12:28 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> Hi Mohammad.
>      
>      Can you please include the following task (in P.S) for Gnuastro in
>      GSOC 2020?
>
> Added to the ideas page, thanks!
>
>      
>      Thank a lot for organizing this,
>      Cheers,
>      Mohammad
>      
>      --------------------------
>      P.S.
>      Name of the GNU program: GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)
>      
>      Summary of the project/idea:
>      Python/R/Julia wrappers for C library of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)
>      
>      Little paragraph explaining the project/idea:
>      Gnuastro is a large collection of data analysis programs and C/C++
>      libraries for (astronomical) data manipulation and analysis. Gnuastro
>      is primarily written in C because astronomical datasets are large and
>      thus need to be efficient. The full list of programs and libraries are
>      available in [1] and [2]. The programs use the libraries for
>      high-level operations directly on the command-line. But many data
>      science operations are today done in the high-level language
>      environments of Python, R or Julia. All three languages have low-level
>      and well-defined interfaces with C libraries. Gnuastro therefore has a
>      task [3] to define a low-level wrapper infra-structure in Gnuastro to
>      easily use the full Gnuastro library in any of these higher-level
>      languages. This will be a wonderful chance to master any of these
>      high-level languages (which are almost fully written in C themselves),
>      while also working on  data science/analysis.
>      
>      [1]
>      
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-programs-list.html
>      [2]
>      
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-library.html
>      [3] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?13786
>      
>      Skills required: C programming, C interface of Python or R or Julia
>      (any language is fine).
>      
>      Contact address for interested students: address@hidden