Google Summer of Code 2018 Application

Organization Application

• Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?
• How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?
• How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?
• How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects?
• How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?
• How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC?
• Has your org been accepted as a mentor org in Google Summer of Code before?
• What year was your project started?
• Where does your source code live?

Organization Details

• Website URL
• Tagline
• Logo
• Primary Open Source License
• Organization Category
• Technology Tags
• Topic Tags
• Ideas List
• Short Description (180 char)

SciRuby's purpose is providing science, numerical, and visualization infrastructure for the Ruby Programming Language. We develop and maintain several libraries for this purpose.

• Long Description (2000 char)

The SciRuby project is oriented towards providing computational research infrastructure for the Ruby Programming Language. SciRuby consists of a fairly large number of gems, including statsample, statsample-glm, statsample-timeseries, distribution, minimization, integration, rubyvis, plotrb, Nyaplot, MDArray, Publisci, Ruby-Band, daru, rubex, rbcuda, and NMatrix.

NMatrix has been awarded grants by the Ruby Association in 2012 and 2015, and has a goal of supplying Ruby with a robust, versatile linear algebra library with support for both dense and sparse matrices. Statsample and its related packages aim to provide Ruby with statistical analysis packages, while daru, nyaplot and gnuplotrb take care of data analysis and visualization. Nyaplot was awarded the Ruby Association Grant in 2014, Rubex and tensorflow.rb received it in 2016 and RbCUDA in 2017.

Working on SciRuby is a chance to get involved at the ground floor on a project which is viewed as critical by many Rubyists, including Ruby's creator, Matz. In fact, all the grants issued by the Ruby Association (which is headed by Matz) in 2016 (and most in 2017) have gone to scientific projects.

Since we are first and foremost a science-related project, we expect successful student projects to lead to publications. Better yet, students might get to see their code go into orbit, or used to save lives in biomedical research.

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