Jiri quitted his PhD and started studying economics. I wasn't sure if students without a CS field are eligible but I found it in the FAQ and he's fine :)
That is correct, I am currently studying economics as a part-time student (BSc degree, just a new study). Here is the proof http://is.muni.cz/osoba/freon?lang=en :) I should be eligible. JK 2013/4/25 Dimitris Kontokostas <[email protected]>: > Jiri quitted his PhD and started studying economics. I wasn't sure if > students without a CS field are eligible but I found it in the FAQ and he's > fine :) > > 2. Who's eligible to participate as a student in Google Summer of Code? > > In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. Google > defines a student as an individual enrolled in or accepted into an > accredited institution including (but not necessarily limited to) colleges, > universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs. You > should be prepared, upon request, to provide Google with transcripts or > other documentation from your accredited institution as proof of enrollment > or admission status. Computer Science does not need to be your field of > study in order to participate in the program.You may be enrolled as a > full-time or part-time student. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 24 April 2013 08:50, Dimitris Kontokostas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Jiri & welcome! >> > >> > It is good that the last few days we started covering most of our ideas >> > with >> > submissions :) >> > >> > we need to double check but I also think that you are eligible for GSoC. >> >> Maybe this can help, I haven't read it in detail: >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/ReVDV1JDQx8/1-f5Bf1OSfQJ >> Are research students in between MSc and PhD eligible for GSoC? >> >> > I took a quick look at your application on melange but the project >> > description & proposed architecture are so not well documented. >> > There is still time since the deadline so you can always ask for >> > feedback >> > and update your proposal. Asking here is free (as in beer) >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Dimitris >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Jiri Kremser <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi DBpedia developers, >> >> >> >> I have finished my master's degree of computer science two years >> >> ago. Then I was doing Ph.D. for 1 year, but I quit. Now I study >> >> economics, therefore I am eligible to attend the GSoC. >> >> >> >> I was successfully attending the GSoC 2011 and it was really great >> >> experience and I learned a lot. Now I work as a developer for Red Hat >> >> on open-source project called RHQ [1]. I've asked my boss and there >> >> should be no problem to attend also the GSoC (I would like to take PTO >> >> if necessary). >> >> >> >> My biggest project is an open-source system for digitizing books [2] >> >> and storing all the metadata in a repository. The relations among the >> >> digital objects were captured by RDF triplets. It is written in Java >> >> and there is one small mvn module written in Scala+Akka for parallel >> >> image conversion. My experience with Java is about 6 years, so I >> >> should know all related technologies like Maven, Git, JVM tunning, >> >> etc. As for Scala, I am quite noob, but I passed the Coursera course >> >> last year with 100%. >> >> >> >> On universities I had a lot of courses with ML, few NLP courses and I >> >> was reading a lot of articles about semweb. I created a plugin for >> >> open-source web crawler for identifying the language of a web page >> >> using Google Prediction API. >> >> >> >> I would love to work on the topic called Massive extraction of triples >> >> from Media Wikis. I've submitted an application in the Melange. >> >> >> >> Talk is cheap, here is my github account [3] :) >> >> >> >> [1]: http://www.jboss.org/rhq >> >> [2]: http://code.google.com/p/meta-editor/ >> >> [3]: https://github.com/Jiri-Kremser >> >> >> >> JK >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt >> >> New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring >> >> service >> >> that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your >> >> browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. 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