@Amandeep I think the mentors will have to be from ASF . If anyone in the list will be able to elaborate . I am really enthusiastic to work on Hadoop this summer.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Amandeep Khurana <ama...@gmail.com> wrote: > Varun, > What does it take to be a mentor? What are the requirements? > -Amandeep > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Varun Thacker <varunthacker1...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm Varun Thacker , a Computer Science student from Manipal Institute >> of Technology , India. This might be a bit late but I hope I can find >> an idea and a mentor to work on as a GSOC project. >> >> I have worked a bit on MapReduce and gave a talk on it at >> (http://www.lugmanipal.org/2010/04/09/distributed-computing-and-mapreduce/ >> ). Are there any projects or tasks which I can take up ? >> >> I am a active member of our college's Linux Users Group >> (http://lugmanipal.org/) and have actively participated in FOSS >> activities in India, attending Pycon India 2009 and FOSS.IN in 2010. >> In December 2010 I helped an Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi >> professor in coding for his research paper on the Quadratic Assignment >> problem. This march i took part in Startup Weekend Bangalore >> (http://bangalore.startupweekend.org/) . By the end of the weekend >> this is what our team made - http://www.makemytripfast.in/ . >> >> I would love to be able to contribute and learn from Hadoop community >> this summer. > > -- Regards, Varun Thacker http://varunthacker.wordpress.com
