Hi Apruv, On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Apurv Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I am a final year undergraduate Computer Science student from IIT Ropar, > India. I am interested in working on the project "create a > *gora-dynamodb* datastore > for Gora". Great. We're always happy to hear that people are interested in Gora. The student application deadline in the 6th of April IIRC. I'm sure you've checked out the GSoC documentation as you expressed your interest over in Nutch, however if not then I would check it out and think about what it sufficient to get working on this project. > I am not familiar with any NoSQL databases but I have always > wanted to learn them. If I am given a chance I would work hard over this > summer and complete this project. > As far as my background is concerned, I have excellent Java implementation > skills and I am a beginner level user of Hadoop, Hama and Zookeeper. I have > contributed a couple of patches to Hama in the last two months. But I have > never worked with any NoSQL databases. It would take time and effort for me > to do lots and lots of readings over the summer to complete this project. > But since this is interesting and I have nothing else to do over the > summer, this would be a challenging opportunity for me. > This is exactly what GSoC's about... right? > > > I pulled out the latest gora-trunk after the build became stable. And tried > to maven install but it hangs up with this line as the last. > OK so this is another issue entirely, I think we need to take this to a different thread altogether. Thanks again for getting in touch. Lets keep the correspondence here for now. Lewis
