Would developing an open standard for in-memory records qualify as 'GSoC' worthy?
In reference to this placeholder in the Confluence wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Apache+Arrow+Home#ApacheArrowHome-Developinganopenstandardforin-memoryrecords which links to ARROW-1790 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1790 and to this thread https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4818cb3d2ffb4677b24a4279c329fc518a1ac1c9d3017399a4269199@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E Developing a standard, or even just starting a standard working group would be quite a contribution, and allow a grad student the opportunity to contact multiple leaders in the field. (I am thinking of something along the lines of the Data Mining Group http://dmg.org/, which I believe is run by a local professor here in Chicago). I don't know many people but can ping that professor and maybe some others locally if other people think this seems like a GSoC - worthy project. Best, Tanya On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:16 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi folks, > > We are looking for project ideas and mentors for GSoC 2019. I created a > JIRA > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-309 > > about a couple of project ideas for the C++ library. > > Since Arrow isn't the _easiest_ project to contribute to, we probably > need to calibrate expectations for what a new contributor can > accomplish in a 3 month GSoC project. A good chunk of time at the > beginning will be spent ramping up. If anyone has project ideas (which > need not be in C++) or wants to be a mentor, the deadline is fast > approaching. > > Thanks, > Wes >
