Video call for GSoC2021 student candidates and mentors

cc @harshcasper @Ketan @rachitt @dhiganthrao @KaranKapoor @Aman @skshamagarwal @ashutosh-pandey @Chetan_Karwa @ThirumalaiShaktivel

Hi Everyone,

It’s late for GSoC 2021 but for any of you looking for a challenging open-source project in the Fortran space may want to look at the Fortran 2003 feature of parameterized derived type (PDT) and the issues with its current implementation in GCC/gfortran.

Please see this thread. Unfortunately this feature has been orphaned and it’s up for grabs to anyone willing to volunteer their contributions.

PDT facility has apparently proven rather difficult to implement and it does appear to be a road “less traveled” in Fortran compilers but it is a useful feature for quite a few situations in scientific and technical computing.

If this catches any of your interest, please do post your thought(s) and/or link(s) here and one or more readers will be keen to assist in many ways to work with the GCC community toward gfortran enhancement.

Thanks,

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