Remember, remember, the 30th of May ! It is almost the end of the community bonding period and I’m kinda like :It was actually a beneficial period to get familiar with my project and the requirements. I also could talk to the community and made some friends. The SunPy community is really supportive ...READ MORE...

The acceptance marked the start of “Community Bonding Period”, which in GSoC’s terminology is a month for students to get acquainted with their mentors, explore the codebase of their organization and review the project’s timeline so they can kick off coding when the “Coding period” starts. The commu ...READ MORE...

I know I should have written earlier but anyway, here is my story (bear with me). I tried getting into the program last year (2016). I started contributing in late February, it was overwhelming for me at that time. So, I gave up. But the interactions I had with the Sunpy community in IRC were very n ...READ MORE...

Before moving on to the coordinate systems, listed below are some common measures used in astronomical studies. RA / DEC RA (right ascension) and DEC (declination) are the longitudes and latitudes of the sky. RA corresponds to east/west direction (like longitude), while Dec measures north/south dire ...READ MORE...

You’ve locked yourself in your room; told no one to disturb you and have been refreshing a list of tabs to the beats of an Emmit Fenn song (Painting Greys to be exact)Suddenly, on those tabs shows updated content.And then you see your project listed among the selected projects for OpenAstronomy, Goo ...READ MORE...

It was late February, and like any year, semester in college was going just as chill as it could. It was my last semester and with only a few courses at hand, my days were spent surfing on internet for content or on Netflix. It was in these last few days, when I came to know about this year’s GSoC p ...READ MORE...

For the HiPS client as multiple tiles have to be fetched for time efficiency, concurrency has to be achieved. So, a comparison was done utilizing Python's threading library. The elapsed time was calculated using time. For fetching the tiles urllib, grequests, aiohttp, asyncio were used. The survey c ...READ MORE...

It has been 5 days after the acceptance to GSoC but I still can’t believe that I’m selected. It is a really different feeling to turn one of your dreams into the reality. After I receive the acceptance mail I was like :Really, it took me 1 hour to believe that my proposal got accepted. What I really ...READ MORE...

Well, I was on a trek this week, on a height of about 4000 meters and it wasn’t a surprise that I had no network there. The day the GSoC results came, I was unaware of all the happenings going down there. I was dying to get back down, and see whether my 2 months of toiling hard work had born fruit.I ...READ MORE...

Hello World! I haven’t had a nerve wracking wait for something in a long time. The results have been out and I am glad and excited to say that my project Casacore Testing has been selected under GSoC-2017. I would like to thank my mentors, Gijs Molenaar and Tammo Jan Dijkema for helping me get star ...READ MORE...