GSoC 2019: Project IRISpy 1.1 — The first progress reportIt has been two weeks since the commencement of the coding phase… I can’t believe it, as it seems like time files. But to sum up the time that passed the following is a brief summary report for what tasks have been completed and what remains:T ...READ MORE...
It’s time for Action ; Code-Sleep-Coffee Repeat!This blog post marks my account for the first week of coding for GSoC’19. While it may not be as long as my previous posts, I would hope to make posts every week, so it would be as recent and relevant.Making Progress for the WeekWhile I had already mad ...READ MORE...
We’ve made some headway with the synphot tutorial, which has helped us determine what to do next. This is what we’ve done so far: To get more accurate count rates, we: Add effects by atmospheric attentuation by using the Cerro Paranal model transmittance curves for an airmass of 1.5 Consider the eff ...READ MORE...
Let the coding begin So the bonding period is over, which means that the coding phase has officially begun. I've already worked on some of the key features I'd like to add since my examination period is around the corner. Hopefully, this won't slow me down and I'll keep up with the workload. The wo ...READ MORE...
The End of the bonding period Today bonding period ends for all students selected at GSoC'19. The aim of this period was to learn more about your project community: get in touch with mentors, other developers and their future ideas on the software... As I said in my last post, I started contributing ...READ MORE...
I got selected for Google Summer of Code 2019 under SunPy.This is the second time I’m doing GSoC. My first time was with SunPy too. So, I know my mentors very well and I’m excited to code my summer away.SunPy makes use of files present on web servers (these are called remote data internally). As of ...READ MORE...
Why this Community Bonding Period(CBP)? According to Google, “The community bonding period is when you work out further details of your project plan, schedule regular upcoming meetings with your mentor, get your development environment set up and start to engage with the project’s open source commun ...READ MORE...
Hi everyone, my name is Juan, I am a fourth-year physics student at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and I have been selected to work with CTLearn under the Open Astronomy organization for this GSOC edition.First, I would like to give a brief overview of the scientific and technical background of t ...READ MORE...
GSoC 2019: Project IRISpy 0.2 — Conclusion of Community Bonding PeriodProgress has been better than expected… Within the past few weeks, while continuing work on the main PR (which can be accessed via this link) on enabling a time-dependent effective areas determination in the “iris_tools” file, whi ...READ MORE...
In this series of posts, I describe my journey as a Google Summer of Code student. These posts would mostly include my work during the weeks and the experience I gained from it. Such posts would come up every two weeks from now so stay tuned.The official coding period of Google Summer of Code is pre ...READ MORE...