So, I was re-visiting my blog entries from GSoC 2013 and realized that my blogs seemed to taper off quite suddenly. I guess that joining grad school brought along an entire whirlwind that blew other things out of my mind! But this is definitely not a fitting ending for what was far by my best summer so far.
So here goes. Since 2013, astroquery has participated in later GSoC's and made some really nice progress, and Astropy has made some truly astronomical(!) progress as well. I am totally glad to be a a part of such a vibrant and active community of pythonistas!
I learnt so much over that summer, thanks too my extremely helpful, jolly and awesome mentors ( Thanks keflavich and astrofrog!), and due to fantastic discussions on the mailing list. I can only realize the immense value of my experience as I look back at my grad school and count the millionth time, git saved my life or a python script saved me from becoming a sleep-deprived zombie. All in all, I can't believe my luck that I got to work with one of the best orgs in GSoC.!
And writing all this is just making me realize how much I love contributing to open source. Thanks to some really nice policies at my work, I now have the go ahead to contribute to open source. So hopefully I'll get started again!
*Disclaimer : all views are my own and not endorsed in any way by my employer.
So here goes. Since 2013, astroquery has participated in later GSoC's and made some really nice progress, and Astropy has made some truly astronomical(!) progress as well. I am totally glad to be a a part of such a vibrant and active community of pythonistas!
I learnt so much over that summer, thanks too my extremely helpful, jolly and awesome mentors ( Thanks keflavich and astrofrog!), and due to fantastic discussions on the mailing list. I can only realize the immense value of my experience as I look back at my grad school and count the millionth time, git saved my life or a python script saved me from becoming a sleep-deprived zombie. All in all, I can't believe my luck that I got to work with one of the best orgs in GSoC.!
And writing all this is just making me realize how much I love contributing to open source. Thanks to some really nice policies at my work, I now have the go ahead to contribute to open source. So hopefully I'll get started again!
*Disclaimer : all views are my own and not endorsed in any way by my employer.
