# GSOC 2024 introduction!

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2024-introduction/7704>\
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**Created:** [March 26, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2024-introduction/7704 "2024-03-26T18:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![datlehehe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@datlehehe](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/datlehehe)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2024-introduction/7704/1 "2024-03-26T18:45:53Z")

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Hello everybody!  
I am Dat Le, an international Computer Science student from the University of Florida! I was just recently introduced to the program GSOC 2024 and am really interested in working on the stdlib - Fortran Standard Library specifically the Linear algebra and sparse matrices project. I am pretty new on Fortran but have a decent understanding of linear algebra! This is an introductory message to everybody in this discourse! If you have any suggestions or guidances, please let me know!

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**Author:** ![hkvzjal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/hkvzjal/32/3055_2.png) [@hkvzjal](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/hkvzjal)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2024-introduction/7704/2 "2024-03-26T20:13:07Z")

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Hi @datlehehe, welcome to the discourse!

If you are interested in contributing to the [Linear algebra and sparse matrices (stdlib)](https://github.com/fortran-lang/webpage/wiki/GSoC-2024-Project-ideas#linear-algebra-and-sparse-matrices-stdlib) project, take a look here [GSoC 2024 Contributor Instructions · fortran-lang/webpage Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/fortran-lang/webpage/wiki/GSoC-2024-Contributor-Instructions#application-process) regarding the application process. Pay close attention to the bullet points number 4 and 5 taking into account the application deadline April 2- 18:00 UTC

Within the description of the project you’ll find some useful discussions under “related issue” and “WIP implementations”. Once you have taken a look, feel free to continue a discussion here for your first PR. Two key points that you’ll see in the links are: the non-OOP basic kernels for sparse matrices and the OOP types for data containment. Both aspects would then help push through interfacing a higher-level API for sparse matrices which should maintain some coherence with the current effort by @FedericoPerini to wrap [BLAS/LAPACK](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/linear-algebra-support-in-stdlib/6917)