In past years students made a page on the wiki with their proposal; this isn't possible anymore due to GitHub permissions. Perhaps an alternative method for getting feedback should be suggested on the introduction page?
Nelson Liu On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Gael Varoquaux < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Students have been inquiring about the GSoC (Google Summer of Code) with > scikit-learn, and the core team has been quite silent about team. > > I am happy to announce that we will be taking part in the scikit-learn > again. The reason that we decided to do this is to give a chance to the > young, talented, and motivated students. > > Importantly, our most limiting resource is the time of our experienced > developers. This is clearly visible from the number of pending pull > requests. Hence, we need students to be very able and independent. This > of course means that they will be getting supervision from mentors. Such > supervision is crucial for moving forward with a good project, that > delivers mergeable code. However, we will need the students to be very > good at interacting efficiently with the mentors. Also, I should stress > that we will be able to take only a very few numbers of students. > > With that said, let me introduce the 2017 GSoC for scikit-learn. We have > set up a wiki page which summarizes the experiences from last year and > the ideas for this year: > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Google- > summer-of-code-(GSOC)-2017 > > Interested students should declare their interest on the mailing list, > and discuss with possible mentors here. Factors of success will be > > * careful work on a good proposal, that takes on of the ideas on the wiki > but breaks it down in a realistic plan with multiple steps and shows a > good understanding of the problem. > > * demonstration of the required skillset via successful pull requests in > scikit-learn. > > Cheers, > > Gaël > > > -- > Gael Varoquaux > Researcher, INRIA Parietal > NeuroSpin/CEA Saclay , Bat 145, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France > Phone: ++ 33-1-69-08-79-68 > http://gael-varoquaux.info http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn >
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