Hello,
I was thinking of applying for the GSoC this year, to work on
Maxima/Matlisp.
I intend to work on adding better numerical support for Maxima, by
integrating parts of the FFI
in Matlisp to interface with BLAS/LAPACK, ODEPACK amongst others.
Although these can be f2cl-ed, I think
having a nice FFI implementation is good nevertheless, since this would
allow Maxima (lisp rather)
to act like a glue-language (like Python!), while allowing one to do
some very interesting things.
I know Maxima applied to be an mentoring organisation some time back
(and was rejected).
Is there any interest to apply for being a mentoring organisation this
year ? Can you recommend
mentoring organisations to which I can apply to, or else ? I was
thinking of Portland state, if they make it this year.
There really were very few (if at all!) mentoring organisations in
GSoC last year, which supported any work
in lisp.
Akshay