We'll have certificates. That's a great idea. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM, David Ragazzi <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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