[Openchemistry-developers] Regarding GSOC-2017

[Geoffrey Hutchison]

Dear Vrushank,

My apologies for a delayed reply - this week I was hit with flu and another infection.

I want to emphasize that while we intend to apply as an organization to GSoC, that there is no guarantee that we will be selected again this year. Moreover, student selection is performed in multiple steps - so starting a project now does not guarantee that even if we participate as an org, that you would be selected as a student. 

In short, while we'd greatly appreciate the help and that an early start would be a strong factor in an application.. we can't assure you a GSoC slot.

That said, our current approach would likely center around pybind11 instead of SWIG: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

My suggestion would be to try some of the simple examples with pybind11 and go from there. For example, I don't know in the last year if there are any tools that automate or partially automate pybind11 along the lines of SWIG.

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

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Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh
tel: (412) 648-0492
email: geoffh at pitt.edu
web: http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/

> On Jan 21, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Vrushank Upadhyay <uvrushank21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello sir,
> I am a 3rd year CSE student studying in India, I was reading on project ideas about open chemistry  and came across the Idea about Scripting Bindings.
> I would like to work on this project, as I am proficient in python/c/c++/golang and I have experience of working with swig. And I also have experience with making bindings for c++ in python and golang. It would be really helpful of you if you can help me on where and how do I get started contributing to this field.
> Awaiting for you reply,
> Thanking you,
> Vrushank Upadhyay

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