Re: More summer of code ideas needed!

[Richard Crozier]

On 18/03/2013 20:21, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> Mentoring organisation applications for Google Summer of Code are now open!
>
>      
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2013/03/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
>
> I have been cleaning up our ideas page in preparation for this:
>
>      http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Low-Level_I.2FO
>
> This has resulted in a number of ideas from past years being reworked
> or removed. We need more ideas! It would be nice if we could get more
> ideas for the Octave Forge packages.
>
> So, what are your ideas? What else could students work on? Edit the
> wiki or let me know and I can work it into the wiki.
>
> - Jordi G. H.

I have a plan to create an interface to the C++ circuit simulator Qucs ( 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qucs/ ) for Octave that would allow 
circuit simulation within a larger ODE system simulation. This is 
something I plan to do myself, but would it be suitable for a GSoC 
student to do some of this work?

I plan to base the C++ interface on the new classdef handle classes in 
development (I have seen a neat and natural way of interfacing C++ this 
way elsewhere, and tested it out with Octave classdef dev sources 
already). I have already been made a developer on the Qucs project and 
modified the build system to optionally generate a library that can be 
linked to for this work. I would want this to work with both ML and 
Octave though.

I don't think this will require much knowledge of circuit simulation, 
just reasonable C++ knowledge and skills.

Thoughts?

Richard





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