Indeed, this is a great idea. Yes, let's talk about it at the office hour today. We'll put together a plan for SoN. ;) --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Kevin Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, if there is going to be an 'SoN' (season of nupic? Somebody suggest a > better name!) and there is a chance that I can get a t shirt and certificate > (not really necessary, would be a reaaaaally nice perk!), then I'm in by all > means! > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Subutai Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Great idea! Maybe we can discuss this briefly during the office hour >> tomorrow. >> >> --Subutai >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nupic mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
