You could open a JIRA issue with "gsoc2017" tag for any discussions around that issue. After you've done submitting, you could talk to Trevor (or anyone else from Mahout) to register as a mentor at GSoC.
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >
