Thanks Gaël. The fact we received four students is testament to the hard
work everyone has done before me!
On 23 April 2014 15:46, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that the information is now out. I'd like to welcome the four
> students that were accepted for the GSoC this year:
>
> * Issam: Extending Neural networks
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/issamou/5733935958982656
>
> * Hamzeh: Sparse Support for Ensemble Methods
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/hamsal/5709068098338816
>
> * Manoj: Making Linear models faster
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/manojkumar/5673522948997120
>
> * Maheshakya: Locality Sensitive Hashing
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/maheshakya/5754903989321728
>
> Welcome to all of you. Your submissions were excellent, and you
> demonstrated a good will to integrate in the project, with it's social
> and coding dynamics. It is a privilege to work with you.
>
> I was especially pleased when I saw that some of you were helping other
> GSoC candidates to improve their submissions. Being able to work as a
> group, and being above competition is a testimonial of quality people!
>
> This is only a start. Now summer is coming and you will have to work your
> way through your project. Remember, these projects are challenging by
> definition, as we don't accept simple projects. But the number one cause
> of failure of projects (whether they be GSoC projects or in the industry)
> is not technical, but rather failure to communicate and failure to
> regulate goals accordingly to difficulties and resources. Your mentors,
> and the whole team of scikit-learn developers, are there to help you.
> They are drowning under a variety of requests, so you'll need to be good
> at communication, but they are also your allies.
>
> We did not expect to have four slots, rather two or three, based on the
> previous years. We did consider that we had four excellent proposals, and
> were facing a difficult choice. I am really happy that we could take all
> four of you. I just need to stress that this is a chance and a privilege.
>
>
> I'd also like to thank all the mentors, Alex, Arnaud, Daniel, James,
> Jaidev, Olivier, Robert and Vlad. It is a lot of work to mentor and
> mentors are not only making it possible for great code to enter
> scikit-learn, but also shaping a future generation of scikit-learn
> contributors.
>
> Gaël
>
>
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