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School finally ended last week (no exam results yet, though) and I took a long-long trip back home.. Week started slowly due to the deadly combination of the forgotten laptop power cord, Midsummer day, Victory Day and best weather ever. This resulted in lots of grilling, beer and also a small side-effect: my GSoC mentor is probably quite angry now for missing my weekly update again...

Back to Sympy now.

So far all my various doc-related fixes have been committed to upstream, and I have decided to bite the bullet and start implementing the variable separation for PDEs. So far some very simple testcases based on first-order equations work, but I have some trouble with equations containing higher order derivatives. You can pull from gihtub/pde-separate and please break it :)

As some of you might already know I am also working within a small group of students developing a small cubesat satellite. Last weekend we finally published a press release which basically concludes that our mission is actually feasible.

Now the University of Tartu together with Finnish Meteorological Institute and other European partners particularly from Estonia and Finland are joining forces to develop the first‐ever orbital test of the electric sail physical principle and technology. The ESTCube‐1 is a 1 kg nanosatellite and Estonia's first satellite, with planned launch in 2012.

And good news come in pairs - my project proposal Improve Sympy to handle Partial Differential Equations was accepted into Google Summer of Code. This means that I can basically spend my summer at Saaremaa and not worry about finding a summer job... :D

But more about the GSoC tomorrow...