Aditya, Shannon Quinn is a committer who mentioned he'd be happy to mentor you this season.
Thanks again for reaching out; let him know where you are in the process and let's get you up and running. Best Andrew On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Palumbo <ap....@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello Aditya, > > > Welcome to Mahout! > > > Here is some information on GSoC requirements [1]. While Mahout has > participated in the GSoC before, please note that you must find a committer > on the Mahout project who will have the bandwidth to be a good mentor to > you. My suggestion would be to start with this step. > > > Hope this helps, > > > Andy > > > [1] https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > Apache Community Development - GSoC<https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > > community.apache.org > Google is sponsoring the 2016 Summer of Code and The Apache Software > Foundation (ASF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization. This page > is your entry point to ... > > > ________________________________ > From: Aditya <adityasarma...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 10:06:54 AM > To: Andrew Musselman > Cc: dev@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Re: Contributing to Apache Mahout via Google Summer of Code 2017 > > Hello Andrew, > > With respect to the application process for Google Summer of Code, once you > guys are sure that I'll be able to contribute to the community on something > meaningful during summer. I'll be drafting a proposal (with guidance from > someone from Mahout) detailing the timeline and the plan of action. I guess > the mentor will be decided based on what my contribution is going to be. > I'm sorry for the delay in replying. It has been a crazy week for me in > terms of my thesis. I'll take some time and look through the framework and > try to get some hands on experience by contributing to a bug fix / an > existing issue in Jira. > > I had a question though, do I submit the application proposal to someone > from Mahout? or is there a centralized process for ASF as a whole. > > PS: With respect to help from your side, it would be a mentor willing to > mentor me through the summer as I work. I will talk to Saikat and see of > what use I can be in the Generalized Linear Model that has been proposed. > > Best Regards, > Aditya > > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Andrew Musselman < > andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Also would probably be good to subscribe to the community list by sending > > mail to dev-subscr...@community.apache.org. > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Musselman < > > andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Aditya, could you go through the page Isabel noted above ( > >> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html) and let us know what help you > >> need applying or moving the process forward? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Disclaimer: Last time I mentored is years ago. > >>> > >>> Back then the ASF applied as a whole to be accepted as organisation for > >>> GSoC. I remember Uli Stärk explaining once to me some of the paperwork > >>> required from the "OSS project side". Upon acceptance, Google granted > >>> several dozen slots for students, those were then distributed across > >>> projects. The exact process should be on the com dev page here: > >>> > >>> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > >>> > >>> Isabel > >>> > >> > >> > > >
