On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Abhranil Das <[email protected]> wrote: > I am Abhranil Das, a fourth year student of an Integrated Masters in Physics > at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. I have > been reading up the project ideas at Ankur for some time now, and I am > interested to participate in a project with the group under Google Summer of > Code 2012. I sent Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay this e-mail yesterday prior to > starting a discussion on the mailing list, but I haven't got a reply yet. > Well, it's a weekend, so I didn't really expect a quick reply, but there's > not a lot of time left for GSoC so I got a little panicky and decided to > repost the e-mail to the mailing list.
Thank you for posting this to the list. The delay in response is more to do with my travel(s) and desynchronosis than a weekend. [snip] > Although it is not mandatory, undergraduates in our position usually work on > an academic project every summer, as I have for the past three years. So > there is some chance that I may have to work on an academic project this > summer, in which case I cannot participate in any capacity in your project. > But if not, I shall have no commitments other than this project during the > whole of the summer period. I can only be sure of which of these will happen > by mid-April. GSoC wants mentoring organizations to finalize their list of > students by April 20. In this scenario, would you advice me to apply for > your project? If there is a higher chance that you will not be able to meet your commitment to the organization, I'd like you to think about whether you'd want to make a proposal. I'm sorry that the decision has to be this harsh, but as a mentoring organization administrator, nothing is more painful than seeing an accepted slot being not utilized because a student could not make it. > As you will see in my CV and developer profile, I am confident with Python, > MATLAB and Perl, and have some experience with C and C++. I have seen Python > being mentioned in the Ankur projects. But in general there is no explicit > criteria of programming knowledge mentioned in the ideas page. Could you > kindly take a look at my programming experience and let me know whether you > think it is okay for me to apply for one of your projects, given the skill > set you would require? Of course, if I need to learn new tools to help with > the project, that's absolutely no problem for me. The premise of the project ideas page is that it is a collection of problem statements. How to approach the solutions for the problems, choosing a specific path among alternatives, proposing a set of tools, languages etc are left as an exercise to the candidate. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> _______________________________________________ Project-ideas mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in
