As Heinrich said, write a proposal. It's a good idea to write one (or more) before the actual deadline since that will leave enough time for discussion. The proposal is not just between you and the mentors -- it's a good thing to have a public discussion about this, and it's a good way to find a mentor for you.
On 14 February 2012 10:28, Andrei Varanovich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > One question to more experienced GSoC'ers. I do understand that this is > important to find mentors in advance. > As soon as I think nowadays it is critical for the programming language > ecosystem to handle BigData [1], have a proposal to implement HDFS [1] > support for CloudHaskell [2] with some MapReduce abstractions. > > What would be the "right" way to communicate with potential mentors? I > looked at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ and it seems > there is not so much going on there. Or, perhaps, this mailing list is just > OK? > > [1] > http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation > [2] http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/ > [3] https://github.com/jepst/CloudHaskell > > Thanks, > Andrei > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Sergiu Ivanov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > What's the time frame for project proposals? I have two ideas in my head >> > that I think are unusually cool. To make a successful SOC project, they >> need >> > a bit of preparation on my part, though, so I'm wondering how much time >> I >> > have to implement a proof of concept or two. >> >> This is the official timeline: >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline >> >> Looking forward to reading your übercool proposals :-) >> >> Sergiu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
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