Thanks, guys. I've been spending time trying to get Melange working for us
so we can use the same GSoC system for tracking our projects. I'll keep you
updated on how it's going.

In the meantime, I found some really useful details about GSoC Students and
Mentors:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/
http://en.flossmanuals.net/gsocmentoring/


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Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Martin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> Its good to see the GSoC projects listed. Can you specify a difficulty
> level for each task as well? I think newcomers would feel more comfortable
> that way.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Will do!
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:20 AM, Kevin Martin <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have added my ideas to the page. Chirag, its great to know that you're
>> interested! Don't forget to list yourself at the 'interested parties' space
>> below the idea.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's an plan for now, so we can start at least tracking these ideas
>>> from Kevin and Aseem more formally...
>>>
>>> I've updated the SoN Idea List template [1] with fields for "mentors",
>>> "proposed by", and "interested parties". Kevin and Aseem, please update
>>> this wiki with your proposals, and list yourselves in both the "proposed
>>> by" and "interested parties" sections. That we we can track them and pitch
>>> them to the rest of the community for mentorship.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Season-of-NuPIC-2014-Idea-List#wiki-1-idea-template
>>>
>>> ---------
>>> Matt Taylor
>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>> Numenta
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't want to discourage anyone from talking about their SoN ideas on
>>>> this list, so apologies if my message to Aseem seemed discouraging, it's
>>>> just that I don't have a way to process them quite yet. Please continue any
>>>> conversations you want to have about potential ideas here on the list and
>>>> I'll figure out how to officially handle them soon.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> ---------
>>>> Matt Taylor
>>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>>> Numenta
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>>>
>>>>>          I really like these ideas. Along your second line of thought.
>>>>> We can may be trai nupic to play a car racing game?
>>>>>
>>>>> Chirag
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Kevin Martin <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Here's my idea, I was planning to implement it for the hackathon. I'd
>>>>> really like to implement this :
>>>>>
>>>>> A multistep prediction can be used to train the computer player in a
>>>>> classic pong game. The coordinates of the point where the ball strikes the
>>>>> boundaries can be encoded and send to nupic. The goal is to predict the
>>>>> location where the ball will be striking the left/right edges of the game
>>>>> space. Also, the number of steps n that is required for the ball to reach
>>>>> an edge will be computed from it. The computer player will have to move 
>>>>> its
>>>>> playing board to this specified position. If the ball arrives at that
>>>>> position successfully, then it was a correct prediction and we increase 
>>>>> the
>>>>> permanence values. I know that I am being a bit vague here. I hope I can
>>>>> put together a slide and share with everyone soon enough.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Along similar lines, another idea would be to train nupic with the set
>>>>> of arrow keys you press to navigate a vehicle in a racing simulation. 
>>>>> After
>>>>> the user completes the circuits a few times, nupic should be able to mimic
>>>>> the sequences and thus 'learn' to drive the car. Here, a fail case would 
>>>>> be
>>>>> to hit an obstacle and a pass case would be to not hit an obstacle for a
>>>>> specified duration of time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jeff Fohl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I can help with:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - tooling work
>>>>>>    - web content
>>>>>>    - wiki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Jeff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey all, I am starting to brainstorm about a SoN plan for 2014. See
>>>>>>> the wiki:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Initial-Season-of-NuPIC-2014-Planning
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please review and edit if you have any ideas, concerns, etc. I'm
>>>>>>> going
>>>>>>> to be looking for volunteers for:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - mentorship
>>>>>>> - tooling work for applications and tracking participants / mentors
>>>>>>> (web dev work, mostly)
>>>>>>> - web content on numenta.org supporting SoN
>>>>>>> - wiki page population for ideas, rules, regulations, etc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please respond here if you're interested in helping out. We're going
>>>>>>> to be creating a new idea list specifically for SoN 2014, and mentors
>>>>>>> must be assigned to each idea for them to be accepted.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This should be fun! Thanks again to Pradeepto for the excellent
>>>>>>> suggestion!
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>>>>>> Numenta
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