I really liked the idea of certificates and even I would suggest recommendation letters for active participants (this is very important for postgraduate admissions offered by named universities).
On 25 February 2014 01:05, 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 > >
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