Re: [scikit-learn] GSOC call for mentors

2017-02-18 Thread Andreas Mueller
So have we made a decision not to participate? I'm totally fine with that, but we should make it a conscious decision and not just wait until the deadline approaches and then hack something together last minute. On 01/31/2017 12:55 PM, Guillaume LemaƮtre wrote: I would be interested in helping

[scikit-learn] Regarding scikit learn to take part in GSOC 2017

2017-02-18 Thread Akshay Gupta
Dear Programmers, I'm watching scikit learn on github from last few month and have also made some contribution. Just now I found that this year there is no final plan in community to take part in GSOC. Community like Scikit Learn which have a unique place in industry should promote open source con

Re: [scikit-learn] GSOC call for mentors

2017-02-18 Thread Olivier Grisel
Personally I don't feel like mentoring this year. I would really like to focus my scikit-learn time on finishing the joblib process refactoring with Thomas Moreau and the binning / thread-based parallelization of boosted trees with Guillaume and Raghav. -- Olivier

[scikit-learn] can we have a slack team for scikit-learn

2017-02-18 Thread SHUBHAM BHARDWAJ 15BCE0704
Hello Friends, I have tried Slack and its awesome. Things are more dynamic. I have faced some problems which I am sure slack can alleviate like- When working on some issue if I need some guidance I am not sure when I will get reply. That maybe usually within 2-3 days or more.Maybe some fellow pr

Re: [scikit-learn] can we have a slack team for scikit-learn

2017-02-18 Thread Naoya Kanai
The Gitter channel is occasionally active ( https://gitter.im/scikit-learn/scikit-learn) so you might want to check it out. On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 5:01 PM, SHUBHAM BHARDWAJ 15BCE0704 < shubham.bhardwaj2...@vit.ac.in> wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I have tried Slack and its awesome. Things are more

Re: [scikit-learn] can we have a slack team for scikit-learn

2017-02-18 Thread Jacob Schreiber
I would support a slack channel --if-- we had channels for different groups of modules, like a tree channel and a linear methods channel, and developers involved in those sections populated the channels. This would allow people to ask questions to developers involved directly. However, I can easily

Re: [scikit-learn] GSOC call for mentors

2017-02-18 Thread Jacob Schreiber
I think we have de facto decided not to participate by not having someone step up by now and organize it like Raghav did last year. On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > Personally I don't feel like mentoring this year. I would really like > to focus my scikit-learn time on f

Re: [scikit-learn] Regarding scikit learn to take part in GSOC 2017

2017-02-18 Thread Jacob Schreiber
Hi Akshay Thanks for the note. We've had several threads discussing this, and appear to have come to the consensus that while there are some people who are willing to serve as mentors, no one has the time right now to organize the entire thing. The team always welcomes contributions and is willin

Re: [scikit-learn] can we have a slack team for scikit-learn

2017-02-18 Thread Nelson Liu
> However, I can easily see this becoming yet another chat medium that is sparsely attended in which case it would be detrimental to split everyone's attention even further. I definitely agree with this and think that this would (likely) be the end outcome -- gitter and irc didn't/don't "work", so