Re: Projects for Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-11 Thread Aviem Zur
Kenn that scholarly documents project sounds awesome. On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:48 PM Kenneth Knowles wrote: > In fact, I have just learned that our deadline to file project _is_ > February 9th. Having good ideas is part of the ASF's application process. > > Here's a TL;DR of the instructions: >

Re: Projects for Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-03 Thread Kenneth Knowles
In fact, I have just learned that our deadline to file project _is_ February 9th. Having good ideas is part of the ASF's application process. Here's a TL;DR of the instructions: 0. ASF members and committers can be mentors; find one for any project idea. 1. Mentors: understand what it means to be

Re: Projects for Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-01 Thread Pablo Estrada
I believe that Beam falls within the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. All we'd need to do is register mentors for projects [1][4], and create JIRA issues with the appropriate labels [2]. So, instead our deadline for the project proposal is on the day when mentoring organizations are anno

Re: Projects for Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-01-31 Thread Kenneth Knowles
I think this is a great idea. I also participated in GSOC once. I've been particularly interested in coming up with great new applications of Beam to new domains. In chatting with professors at the University of Washington, I've learned that scholars of many fields would really like to explore new

Projects for Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-01-13 Thread Pablo Estrada
Hi there, The GSOC 2017 [1] is coming soon. I figured it would be nice if we could find small projects that a student could implement this summer. Apache already takes part in this, and all we'd need to do is label Jira issues as GSOC projects. Any ideas for projects? As a note, during my grad sch