I believe that Beam falls within the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. All we'd need to do is register mentors for projects [1][4], and create JIRA issues with the appropriate labels [2]. So, instead our deadline for the project proposal is on the day when mentoring organizations are announced (Feb 27) [3].
[1]. https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html#prospective-asf-mentors-read-this [2]. https://community.apache.org/use-the-comdev-issue-tracker-for-gsoc-tasks.html [3]. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [4]. https://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:03 AM Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > I think this is a great idea. I also participated in GSOC once. > > I've been particularly interested in coming up with great new applications > of Beam to new domains. In chatting with professors at the University of > Washington, I've learned that scholars of many fields would really like to > explore new and highly customized ways of processing the growing body of > publicly-available scholarly documents. This seems like a great project, > since we love doing this to Shakespeare's works, and there are thousands of > times as many public articles so there's non-toy scale issues. And yet, it > does seem like it can be scoped appropriately. > > The deadline for a mentoring organization is Feb 9 so let's put together a > proposal! > > Kenn > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Pablo Estrada <pabl...@google.com.invalid > > > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > The GSOC 2017 [1] is coming soon. I figured it would be nice if we could > > find small projects that a student could implement this summer. Apache > > already takes part in this, and all we'd need to do is label Jira issues > as > > GSOC projects. Any ideas for projects? > > > > As a note, during my grad school I participated in GSOC a couple of times > > and I'd say they were some of my most rewarding development experiences. > > > > [1] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ > > >
