# GSoC 2025 fastGPT Proposal

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2025-fastgpt-proposal/9537>\
**Category:** GSoC-2025\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2025-fastgpt-proposal/9537 "2025-04-03T06:20:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bartukoksal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@bartukoksal](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/bartukoksal)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2025-fastgpt-proposal/9537/1 "2025-04-03T06:20:43Z")

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Hi,

My name is Bartu Koksal, currently a junior Computer Science student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am really interested in applying for GSoC 2025 with Fortran-lang.

I am really interested in the project " Improving fastGPT: Making it Faster, Easier to Use, and More General". My current stack of programming languages are: C, C++, Java, Python (with its advanced linear algebra, scientific computing, machine learning/deep learning libraries), and OCaml. I have taken advanced courses in Linear Algebra, Machine Learning, and Numerical Analysis, which I believe could cover the Linear Algebra part of the requirements of the project.

However, I do not have any experience with Fortran, and I would really like to learn it whilst working with such an interesting project. Would it be possible for me to apply with a proposal that also includes my continuous learning of Fortran, whilst developing the project with its checkpoints and targets?

Bartu

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2025-fastgpt-proposal/9537/2 "2025-04-03T06:34:50Z")

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I recommend you start by sending several PRs against fastGPT, and then we’ll go from there. If you can contribute to a Fortran project, then you’ll be up to speed and there is no problem. Fortran is easy to learn, you can learn it from [Learn — Fortran Programming Language](https://fortran-lang.org/learn/).