Hi Dhiren, Welcome to SystemML!
I would encourage you to go through some of these lectures which explain the internals of SystemML - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bnyFR5em0&list=PL9U7gw7DOIGhdiKZkMAqNPIDywFMlzCaY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bnyFR5em0&list=PL9U7gw7DOIGhdiKZkMAqNPIDywFMlzCaY> Also look through the JIRA site - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel> and pick something that you find interesting. I have worked on the language layer a bit and the GPU backed and can help you in those areas should you choose them. You can also take a look at the commit history and get a sense of who is the most active in a particular component and ping them directly. Hope this helps get you started. -Nakul > On Sep 28, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Dhiren Navani <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am Dhiren Navani. I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Arizona > State University. I am trying to develop java and apache spark skills. I am > interested in learning more about SystemML and would like to contribute. It > would be great if there is someone who can mentor me or guide me to > resources, since I am comparatively new to the opensource world and > industry in general. > Also I can assist with some promotional activities as I am a part of lot of > meetup groups here in Phoenix, Arizona. > > On 28 September 2016 at 12:32, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One of the remaining things that SystemML needs to do in order to graduate >> is to build a better community around the project. >> >> Some ideas are: >> >> - Be more open with mailing lists discussions particularly with high level >> designs that sometimes just get buried in PRs. >> - Identify and participate on projects where more experienced community >> members would mentor students or others interested in >> participating/contributing to the project (e.g. GSoC) >> - Identify top two main personas that would be interested in the project, >> and bring up visibility on documentation based on these personas to make >> their first experience with the project very smooth and without much >> problems. >> - Create simple JIRAs and flag them for initial contributors (e.g. >> documentation, simple fix, etc) >> >> Any other ideas ? And how do we execute this with some priority to get us >> to graduate ? >> >> -- >> Luciano Resende >> http://twitter.com/lresende1975 >> http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >> > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Dhiren Amar Navani > (+1) 480-434-0661 > > [image: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dhiren-navani/41/b36/372] > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dhiren-navani/41/b36/372>
