Hello everybody, The two project ideas with Olivier's name are very interesting to me. Notably the NMF project could also include a rehaul of the current implementation, a cython non-negative least squares solver, addition of KL divergence loss, and as much love as possible for sparse matrices.
I would also like to propose a more maintenance-oriented project, such as was suggested in the last discussion on this topic, earlier this year, given my familiarity with the codebase. Maybe Andy would like to mentor such a project? Given that he's been doing so much good work on quality lately, maybe I could take the load off his shoulders this summer. I remember Gael saying that he'd rather be moving towards scikit-learn 1.0 than add more features that take as away. I feel that we are in a pretty solid position and I agree with this idea. WDYT? Vlad On Mar 6, 2012, at 20:17 , Gael Varoquaux wrote: > Hi team, > > First of all, I need to apologize for not having been responsive in the > discussions concerning the 2012 edition of the GSOC. I am a bit > overcomitted, and the discussions were going well, so I didn't feel that > I could add something terribly useful to them. > > The ground-to-earth organization for the GSOC is starting to set up. In > particular, we are planning to participate in the GSOC under the umbrella > of the PSF. I have informal agreement for this. There will be a meeting > at PyCon this weekend about the GSOC. It would be great if those of the > team who are there could drop by. > > This year, I think that we can ramp up a bit the participation on our > side. Last year I wasn't sure that our best practices were set enough, > and that we had enough potential mentors to take more than one student. > This year I hope that if we get enough enthusiasm and good > applications, we can apply for more. > > On the mentor side, I'd like people to start thinking if they can be > mentors or backup mentors. I won't give names, but I think that we have a > good number of people that have the skills to be mentors. Just keep in > mind if you volunteer to be a mentor that it does take some time. If you > have a good student, it is worth the effort: you will gain a good > collaborator in the long run, in addition to the code contributions that > the project will directly bring to the scikit. > > If any potential students is hanging around on the mailing list, it would > be good if they could start thinking of the project they want to submit. > A few ideas have been flying around. Some of them are written down on the > wiki: > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-google-summer-of-code-%28gsoc%29-2012 > it is editable by everybody and can serve as a way to keep track of > discussions. Students are also free to propose their projects. The > guideline are that the projects should be sizable contributions that they > believe they can bring to success in a summer's work, and that it should > be of general interest to the community. As a reminder, a GSOC is a full > time project. This means that under the rules of the GSOC you cannot have > another job, or a summer project. This does include PhD programs: unless > you can put your PhD program on pause for a summer, you are unfortunately > not eligible for GSOC (that's a pity, I know). > > Looking forward to an exciting summer, hopefully with new collaborations! > > Gaël > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
