Hey Matt, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a bummer, but I'm not heartbroken about it. It has given us a > change to arrange a set of goals for our project[1], and it's also > given me an understanding of how we can better prepare for GSoC next > year and recruit mentors more effectively. > > GSoC mentorship would have put a considerable strain on our project > during a crucial period this summer while we are working towards > evolving NuPIC towards the vision of the community. Don't be > discouraged by this. Our project is still young, and I think next year > we'll be in a much stabler place to accommodate GSoC participation. > > Not really the same thing but something analogous is when students get rejected by the project mentors. Here in KDE, we have something called the "Season of KDE" ( which makes more sense in both hemispheres even ;) ) for students who are rejected. We offer them to work on their proposals anyway w/o the Google money. For a t-shirt, a certificate, for fun, for the love of the idea and for solving a problem. And trust me it works. A KDE colleague and me had started SoK back in 2006, since then it has become a yearly ritual and has been totally perfected by our community members. I am pretty sure if we dig in our KDE data we will find that we have retained more SoKkers than SoCcers i.e. KDE SoK folks join for the love of the idea and stick around for longer time. I would highly recommend that NuPIC does something like this if possible. >From where I stand and see, there are students who want to work on NuPIC and it seems you have mentors who want to help out. Perfect match, non? Do read the following links, those should help. [0] https://season.kde.org [1] http://dot.kde.org/2013/08/09/season-kde-2013-applications-open Regards, Pradeepto -- Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya KDE e.V. Board of Director | Proud KDE Contributor The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org
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