Specify your proposal in the "original ideas" instead of "from the list of ideas". Slots will be decided based on the applications received, AFAIK.
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please submit a proposal asap (before the deadline). If Trevor has already > agreed to mentor, then work with him to incorporate his feedback on your > prposoal. All the best! > Regards, > Ishan > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Aditya <adityasarma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> Hope some of you had the time to read the previous mail. It would be >> really great if one of you could answer the questions. >> >> Regards, >> Aditya >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Aditya <adityasarma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello everyone! >> > >> > I have a few questions regarding ASF's participation in GSoC this year. >> > >> > I have approached the Mahout community to contribute to Mahout's >> > development in the summer (as part of GSoC) in the form of an algorithm. >> > Trevor Grant, a committer of Apache Mahout has agreed to mentor me and >> has >> > filled in the paperwork for mentorship. >> > >> > My question is that how many slots does ASF expect to have in GSoC this >> > year. Among those slots, how many would be for Apache Mahout. I'm asking >> > this specifically because the ideas page (Apache's Jira Issues page) >> does >> > not have any issues related to Mahout. >> > >> > I was interested in Mahout because of it being a distributed algorithms >> > framework and hence proposed an idea to contribute an algorithm as part >> of >> > GSoC 2017. >> > (I'm still discussing and reworking my proposal with Trevor's guidance) >> > >> > Awaiting your replies. >> > >> > PS: I haven't been able to contribute to Mahout in terms of a bug fix / >> > patch because most beginner level issues were already fixed as part of >> the >> > 0.13 release and I don't want to lose out on the opportunity because of >> > lack of contribution. Although, Trevor gave me some reading material (a >> set >> > of docs that he is still working on) to get a grip of the Mahout >> ecosystem. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Aditya >> > >> > >> > >> > >
