Call for mentors and project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2023

[milancurcic]

@gnikit

• a project to finalise the work with fpm profiles (there’s already a fair bit of the work done from a previous gsoc)
• a project integrating in vscode Fortran, cmake and then hopefully fpm (mostly materialising the work and UI we’ve discussed in the past)

@FedericoPerini

• Use the output of gfortran’s (or LFortran’s?) internal parser to modernize old Fortran code: remove goto’s, replace with do/while loops and/or more modern intrinsics where possible; explicitly define all implicit variables/procedures and their interfaces, prettify (free form, indentation)
• Tiny fortran graphics API: write a tiny wrapper interface to write 2D vector or byte data to any backends: system graphics (OpenGL seems to make the most sense), gnuplot, PNG, SVG, PDF, … this could grow exponentially.

Feel free to add these directly to the Project Ideas page. I just added two more ideas (HTTP client and a deep learning one). There’s already a decent number of ideas on the list, and we can keep adding and updating the page even after tomorrow’s submission.

I have reviewed everything and we’re ready to submit the Org application tomorrow morning.