Hi folks, The deadline for applications is nearing (April 6th). I'd like to stress that the scikit-learn will only be accepting high-quality application: it is a challenging, though rewarding, project to work with. To maximize the quality of your application, here are a few advice:
1. First discuss on the mailing list a pre-proposal. Make sure that both the scikit-learn team and yourself are entousiastic about the idea. Try to have one or two possible mentors that hold a dialog with you. 2. Satisfy the PSF requirements (http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/Expectations) briefly: - Demonstrate to your prospective mentor(s) that you are able to complete the project you've proposed - Blog for your GSoC project. - Contribute at least one patch to the project I'd add the the patch should be somewhat substantial, not just fixing typos. 3. In parallel with 2, start a online document (google doc, for instance) to elaborate your final proposal, and if you manage to convince mentors, you can get feedback on it. As a final note, I want to stress that GSOC projects are ambitious: we are talking about a few months of full time work. Thus the ideas proposed are idea challenging, and the students are supposed to draw a battle plan, with difficult variants and less difficult variants. The GSOC is a full major set of contributions, not a single pull request. Good luck, I am looking forward to seeing the proposals. You'll see, the scikit is a big friendly and enthousiastic community, Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
