Here's what I submitted: Site Name: (it's the only address I could find!) Apache Software Foundation Dept. 9660, Los Angeles, CA 90084-9660, U.S.A. --------------------------------- Contact: Grant Ingersoll VP, Apache Lucene gsing...@apache.org (For Lucene/Solr, Mahout, OpenNLP and Open Relevance projects)
Those interested in other ASF related projects can subscribe to the dev@community.apache.org mailing list (send an email to dev-subscr...@community.apache.org and follow the instructions.) --------------------------------- Please list some characteristics of your site: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is one of the preeminent open source software providers in the world. The ASF has over 80 different projects and over 2000 volunteer committers, producing a wide range of software from the HTTPD Server that powers much of the web to the likes of Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, Mahout and Tomcat. We are almost totally a volunteer driven organization where people can contribute as they see fit to help a project. We do almost all of our collaboration online via email, IRC, etc. In many ways, I suspect we are unlike most any other organization that has submitted here, as we don't have bosses and we all volunteer to contribute. As for the projects I'm interested in, Lucene is the preeminent open source search library on the planet today. It is used in a large number of applications and services ranging from mobile devices to sites powering 1 billion plus searches a day. Solr is a platform on top of Lucene that makes it easy for people to use Lucene's power without as much programming. Mahout is a relatively new project focused on scalable machine learning algorithms for clustering, classification and recommendations, amongst other topics. OpenNLP is a library focused on natural language processing tasks like part of speech tagging, named entity recognition and others. --------------------------------- What tasks can your intern expect to perform?: There are a couple things that I am specifically looking for, but there are also broader opportunities for anyone to contribute to any project at the ASF. I am happy to direct people on where to go for the latter and can likely point them at potential mentors, but really am here to focus on the former, as that is what I intend to mentor on. Specifically, I am looking for a couple of different things: 1. One or more people to help define and build out a set of corpora (publicly available, with no intellectual property encumbrances), relevance judgments, queries, etc. for testing search engines and machine learning algorithms such as Lucene, Mahout, OpenNLP and possible others via the Open Relevance Project (ORP -- http://lucene.apache.org/openrelevance/) If you are familiar with the Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference (TREC), you can think of ORP as an open source TREC set of evaluations. Collections can range from traditional texts (email, articles, web crawls, etc.) to ecommerce to spatial (local search -- such as open street map). I'm looking for someone who has the vision to put forth ideas and bring them to fruition. You don't have to be able to code, but it would be helpful. 2. One or more people to build out an open relevance evaluation web tool for capturing relevance experiments, evaluating them using common measures such as precision/recall, mean reciprocal rank, normalized discounted gain, etc. Again, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to put forth a vision for what such a tool should be and then work to make it happen. This opportunity requires programming skills, preferably in Java, but other languages can be considered. 3. Lucene, Solr, Mahout and OpenNLP are always looking for contributions in terms of code, documentation, evaluation, etc. See the respective project websites (http://lucene.apache.org, http://mahout.apache.org and http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp) for more information on the projects and then feel free to propose ideas. 4. I'm sure other ASF projects would be willing to entertain other ideas. All work will be done in an open source fashion. All technical ideas/questions/discussions will take place on public mailing lists. Personal issues will be handled by me as the site supervisor. Thus, the intern will not only learn valuable real world skills that may be useful to large audiences of people but they will also gain intimate knowledge of how open source projects are built. --------------------------------- -Grant On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 17/03/2011 13:20, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> >> On Mar 16, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >>> >>>> Do I need Board approval? I think as an Officer of the ASF I can >>>> do some of this, but want to make sure I'm proceeding correctly. >>> >>> No need to bother the Board. It's in our charter to provide >>> whatever support you need. It's nice to have a real test case to >>> flesh out the ideas here at the ASF. >> >> Specifically, I need to fill out the form at >> http://sils.unc.edu/programs/field-experience/new-site-form >> >> I would like to fill out the Site Name and Address as the ASF and my >> name as the site supervisor. Does that seem OK? > > I don't see any reference to terms and conditions or other such legal stuff. > Assuming that this form does not bind us in any way to anything we don't > already offer through ComDev then that's fine. As far as I'm concerned you > can go ahead with this on a lazy consensus basis. > > Who do you plan to put down under: > > "Contact information for site supervisor (include name, title, e-mail, and > phone number): " > > In many ways I think that should be this list. We have a list of projects > that are suitable for students and I'd like to make these available to SILS. > Putting ComDev down means you don't have to worry about approaches from > people in other areas. > > On the other hand, the definition of "site supervisor" [1] is that of a > mentor in our language. The responsibilities are very similar to those of our > mentors (in fact I think I'll steal the couple that are missing in our > definition of a mentor) > > Perhaps the best way forward is for you to do it this year as "site > supervisor" and, if you feel it is appropriate, link them to ComDev to > explore a more complete offering from the ASF as a whole. > > Ross > > [1] > http://sils.unc.edu/programs/field-experience/roles-and-responsibilities#site-supervisor
