Create a main GSoc page for adding 2021 posts

_config.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ navigation:
 
 header_pages:
   - downloads.md
-  - gsoc-2020/index.md
+  - gsoc/index.md
   - about.md
 
 # Exclude from processing.

_includes/footer.html

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+<footer class="site-footer h-card">
+  <data class="u-url" href="{{ "/" | relative_url }}"></data>
+
+  <div class="wrapper">
+
+    <h2 class="footer-heading">{{ site.title | escape }}</h2>
+
+    <div class="footer-col-wrapper">
+        <div class="footer-col footer-col-1">
+            {%- include social.html -%}
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="footer-col footer-col-2">
+            <ul class="contact-list">
+            <li class="p-name">
+                {%- if site.author -%}
+                {{ site.author | escape }}
+                {%- else -%}
+                {{ site.title | escape }}
+                {%- endif -%}
+                </li>
+                {%- if site.email -%}
+                <li><a class="u-email" href="mailto:{{ site.email }}">{{ site.email }}</a></li>
+                {%- endif -%}
+            </ul>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="footer-col footer-col-3">
+            <p>{{- site.description | escape -}}</p>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+
+  </div>
+
+</footer>

assets/main.scss

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 .column-4 {
   flex: 25%;
 }
+
+.light-gray {
+  border-top: 0.3px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.795);
+}
+
+.footer-col-2 {
+  display: none;
+}

gsoc-2020/executors.md → gsoc/gsoc-2020/executors.md

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 layout: page
 title: Google Summer of Code 2020 - Unified API for Algorithms
 short: GSoC 2020 Executors
-permalink: /gsoc-2020/executors/
+permalink: /gsoc/gsoc-2020/executors/
 ---
 
 **Student:** [Shrijit Singh][shrijit]

gsoc-2020/gpu.md → gsoc/gsoc-2020/gpu.md

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 layout: page
 title: Google Summer of Code 2020 - Refactoring, Modernisation & Feature Addition with Emphasis on GPU Module
 short: GSoC 2020 GPU & Refactoring
-permalink: /gsoc-2020/gpu/
+permalink: /gsoc/gsoc-2020/gpu/
 ---
 
 <img src="{{ '/assets/images/gsoc-2020/gpu_radius.png' | relative_url }}" alt="radius-search" width="720" /> 

gsoc-2020/index.md → gsoc/gsoc-2020/index.md

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 layout: page
 title: Google Summer of Code 2020
 short: GSoC 2020
-permalink: /gsoc-2020/
+permalink: /gsoc/gsoc-2020/
 ---
 
 <img src="{{ '/assets/images/gsoc-2020/gsoc-logo.svg' | relative_url }}" alt="gsoc-logo" width="300" class="center" />

gsoc/index.md

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+---
+layout: page
+title: Google Summer of Code
+short: GSoC
+permalink: /gsoc/
+---
+
+<img src="{{ '/assets/images/gsoc-2020/gsoc-logo.svg' | relative_url }}" alt="gsoc-logo" width="300" class="center" />
+
+## Summary
+
+- [GSoc 2021](#2021)
+- [GSoc 2020](#2020)
+<hr class="light-gray">
+<br>
+
+### 2021
+
+(Coming soon)
+
+<hr class="light-gray">
+<br>
+
+### 2020
+
+After a long hiatus, PCL is once more participating in the Google Summer of Code initiative, this year with 3 projects. 
+
+### Extending PCL for use with Python: Bindings generation using Pybind11
+
+**Student:** [Divyanshu Madan][divyanshu]
+
+**Mentors:** [Kunal Tyagi][kunal], [Andrea Ponza][aponza]
+
+**Proposal:** [url](/assets/pdf/gsoc-2020/proposal-bindings.pdf)
+
+**Summary**
+
+Extending PCL's use case by generating bindings for its use with interface languages like Python, for rapid development and maximal speed. The approach makes use of Pybind11 to expose PCL's C++ code and generate bindings in the form of python modules by using necessary type information. It supports automatic regeneration of the bindings when the underlying C++ code changes, to work with PCL's active development cycle.
+
+### [Refactoring, Modernisation & Feature Addition with Emphasis on GPU Module](/gsoc/gsoc-2020/gpu)
+
+**Student:** [Haritha Jayasinghe][haritha]
+
+**Mentors:** [Sérgio Agostinho][sergio], [Lars Glud][lars]
+
+**Proposal:** [url](/assets/pdf/gsoc-2020/proposal-gpu.pdf)
+
+**Summary**
+
+Despite being the go-to library for point cloud based computation, PCL can cause some friction to users due to its old-fashioned and sometimes inconsistent API and the lack of certain features. This proposal aims to introduce the following new features to the PCL library;
+* GPU implementation of Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm
+* Implementation of Fast Resampling of 3D Point Clouds via Graphs
+
+As well as to refactor and modernize the library by means of;
+* Introducing better type for point indices, thereby providing support for larger point clouds
+* Introducing a fluent API for algorithms
+* Modernising the GPU Octree module to align with the it’s CPU counterpart
+
+**Final report:** [url](/gsoc/gsoc-2020/gpu)
+
+### [Unified API for Algorithms](/gsoc/gsoc-2020/executors)
+
+**Student:** [Shrijit Singh][shrijit]
+
+**Mentors:** [Kunal Tyagi][kunal], [Sérgio Agostinho][sergio]
+
+**Proposal:** [url](/assets/pdf/gsoc-2020/proposal-executor.pdf)
+
+**Final Report:** [url](/gsoc/gsoc-2020/executors)
+
+**Summary**
+
+Motivation
+
+With the current trend of increasing parallelism, there is a need for a uniform way of making these parallel implementations available along with the default serial ones. Currently in PCL, this has been done by providing separate classes/functions having independent APIs.
+
+With the integration of execution policies and executors (part of C++23 hopefully) libraries like PCL will be able to provide a unified API to switch between different implementations. To ensure there is no sudden breakage in the existing API, a transition phase is needed to slowly phase out the old API in favour of a unified API.
+
+Implementation
+
+This project aims to transition the existing API to forward-compatible unified API. The basic details are: Using tag dispatching to enable function overloading, allowing user to select between different available implementations. Lack of tags allows PCL to choose best possible implementations, this allows to maintain backward compatibility with current API. Missing implementation for a tag raises compile-time errors Providing SIMD/OpenMP/CUDA implementations of existing algorithms using the proposed unified API.
+
+
+[divyanshu]: https://github.com/divmadan
+[haritha]: https://github.com/haritha-j
+[shrijit]: https://github.com/shrijitsingh99
+
+[aponza]: https://github.com/aPonza
+[kunal]: https://github.com/kunaltyagi
+[sergio]: https://github.com/SergioRAgostinho
+[lars]: https://github.com/larshg