Community Bonding Period: Getting Started with GSoC '25

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Hello everyone!

Last week marked the beginning of my journey as a GSoC 2025 contributor with NRNB, working on the project "Developing a Highly Efficient Numerical ODE Solver in SBSCL". The community bonding period is an essential phase of Google Summer of Code where contributors interact with their mentors, understand the organization's workflows, and align expectations before the coding period begins. 

Here's a summary of my activities and key discussions so far.

  • I had my first online meeting with the mentors on 9th of May 2025 via Zoom.
  • Mentors welcomed me to the project. We got to know each other and discussed backgrounds.
  • We decided to meet at 5:30 PM IST every Thursday for the weekly discussions of the project. 
  • We discussed the timeline of the project provided by me in the proposal. 
  • Based on my mentor's suggestion, I set up my blogpost account and published my first blog. 
  • I joined the official SBSCL slack channel for team communications.

  • I had my second meeting with the mentors on 15th May 2025 via Zoom. 
  • We set up the contributor-mentor agreement. 
  • I shared my progress that I have started reviewing the existing draft LSODA implementation in SBSCL and I have started reading the original LSODA paper to understand the algorithm's design and mathematics. 
  • We discussed on the PR workflow that I will be following - I will develop features on my fork, and submit PRs to the LSODAIntegrator-Remote branch. Once the LSODA implementation is completed and tested, it will be merged with the master branch.
  • Mentors suggested me to deep-dive in the current draft LSODA implementation, including associated documentation and mathematics involved. 
Thank you!

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