Trevor, The student needs to submit a proposal for GSOC on the official GSOC website and compete with all others for the spots that will be assigned to ASF. If your project wants to propose an idea for GSOC, record that in JIRA and add gsoc2017 as a label, so it is listed in the list of ideas from ASF.
If you want to become a mentor for GSOC, you should first subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org by sending an email to mentors-subscr...@community.apache.org- use an email address connected to your apache id. In order to receive the official invitation to become a mentor for Mahout for GSOC you need to get acknowledged as a committer "in good standing" with the project. For that you have to send an email to the Mahout PMC list, cc-ed to ment...@community.apache.org to be acknowledged as a committer in good standing Sample email below: >>>> to priv...@mahout.apache.org <priv...@systemml.incubator.apache.org> cc ment...@community.apache.org subject: GSOC mentor request for [your name here] Hi [Apache project PMC], Please acknowledge my request to become a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2017 for [Apache project] (by replying to all with an ACK message). I would like to receive the mentor invite at [email address connected to a Gmail account] >>> Once someone on the private@mahout replies (to private@mahout and mentors@community) with an acknowledgement (you can ack yourself as member of PMC), the Apache system admin for GSOC, which is on the mentors@community.a.o list will send you a mentor invite Below is a message sent some time ago with useful info for GSOC: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:50 PM Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming To: ment...@community.apache.org Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your podlings), Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing students to spend their summer working on open source software. Students will receive stipends for developing open source software full-time for three months. Projects will provide mentoring and project ideas, and in return have the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - to identify and bring in new committers. The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual projects don't have to apply separately. If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the following things as soon as possible but by no later than 2017-02-09: 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. 2. record your project ideas. Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2017, and they will show up at [3]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the programming language, the tools and skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They are supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...) and record them at [5]. Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. httpd, ooo). Contact dev@community.apache.org if you need assistance. [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017 shortly). 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential mentors, meant to be used as a private list - general discussions on the public dev@community.apache.org list as much as possible please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of your alias addresses on record). Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet, nevertheless you *have to* start recording your ideas now or we will not get accepted. Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. Some of our prior students are active contributors now! Let's make this year a success again! Cheers, Uli P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to. [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, I'm a PMC member of the Apache Mahout Community, I've spoken > Aditya both on dev and offline. I think this will be a good fit. What do > I need to do on my end to make this official? (I know I saw a thread > sometime ago, but I can't find it, applogies). > > Trevor Grant > Data Scientist > https://github.com/rawkintrevo > http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo > http://trevorgrant.org > > *"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil* > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Aditya <adityasarma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all again! > > > > I'm a senior year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science. I > > intend to be a part of the Apache Software Foundation and would love to > > start my journey through the Google Summer of Code this summer. > > > > Particularly, I am interested in contributing to Apache's scalable > machine > > learning framework, Mahout. I have contacted members of Apache Mahout and > > would love to contribute to Mahout this summer. Although, in the ideas > page > > (apache's issues page) I wasn't able to find any Mahout related issue. I > > know that in general new ideas / new proposals (apart from those listed > in > > the Ideas page) are encouraged. But just wanted check with the > > administration in ASF who are involved with GSoC this season. > > > > Best Regards, > > Aditya > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Aditya <adityasarma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hello all ! > > > > > > I'm a senior year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science. I > > > intend to be a part of the Apache Software Foundation and would love to > > > start my journey through the Google Summer of Code this summer. > > > > > > Particularly, I am interested in contributing to Apache's scalable > > machine > > > learning framework, Mahout. I have contacted members of Apache Mahout > and > > > would love to contribute to Mahout this summer. Although, in the ideas > > page > > > (apache's issues page) I wasn't able to find any Mahout related issue. > I > > > know that in general new ideas / new proposals (apart from those listed > > in > > > the Ideas page) are encouraged. But just wanted check with the > > > administration in ASF who are involved with GSoC this season. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Aditya > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Dr. Adina Crainiceanu Associate Professor, Computer Science Department United States Naval Academy 410-293-6822 <(410)%20293-6822> ad...@usna.edu http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
