Re: [GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-04-01 Thread Ted Dunning
Let me second that. When I am hiring a student without professional experience, it is almost a perfect predictor that if they have done significant work on a significant outside project they will get an interview with me and if not, they won't. Moreover, if I have a candidate at any level who has

Re: [GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-04-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
The other thing to note, here, is that people should be aware that the ASF is only going to get a certain number of slots from Google (last year, it was somewhere in the 30-40 range, I think), which are distributed across all projects that have expressed an interest in mentoring. While Mah

Re: [GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-04-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hmm, I see several in there, but they aren't all labeled w/ Mahout, so that may be why. I also expanded to see 100 at a time. -Grant On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: I only see two applications for Mahout, one reasonably strong, one much less so. Are there students out the

Re: [GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Tomsett
I'm preparing an application, but haven't submitted yet as I was waiting on confirmation of my student status... as I now know that I'm going to be eligible I'll get my application in soon :) 2009/4/1 Ted Dunning : > I only see two applications for Mahout, one reasonably strong, one much less > so

Re: [GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-03-31 Thread Ted Dunning
I only see two applications for Mahout, one reasonably strong, one much less so. Are there students out there who still need to prepare an application? The deadline is coming up fast. 2009/3/31 Grant Ingersoll > FYI: http://wiki.apache.org/general/RankingProcess > > -Grant > -- Ted Dunning

[GSOC] Ranking Process

2009-03-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
FYI: http://wiki.apache.org/general/RankingProcess -Grant