@Till is working on bootstrapping a machine learning Library, he can probably give you some points... Am 04.03.2015 04:34 schrieb "Dulaj Viduranga" <vidura...@icloud.com>:
> Great. So can you assign me someone to brainstorm the project idea and > make a proposal that would benefit flink the most? > > On Mar 04, 2015, at 02:08 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hey Dulaj! > > I think that the issue is only marked as "low priority", because it is not > on the immediate roadmap for any committer and we are looking for outside > contributors. > > If that is actually what you are interested in, I think you can pick this > topic! > > Stephan > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Dulaj Viduranga <vidura...@icloud.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I would really like to know what are your high priority GSoC projects and > > that is it possible for me to have one to contribute this summer. > > I’ve played around and went through the flink system sources and I’m > > really interested in contributing to this project. > > I was interested in working on [FLINK-1537] Machine learning with Apache > > Flink project for GSoC, becase I have a past neural networks knowledge. But > > I see it is a Minor priority one. I'm wondering if you could help me to > > select a good high priority project. > > Thank you. > > > On Feb 20, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Good to hear. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Till > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Dulaj Viduranga <vidura...@icloud.com > > > <mailto:vidura...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > > Great. I have already started to go through documentation. I’ll follow > > your directions and contact you when I’m up and ready. :) > > > > > > Best regards. > > > Dulaj > > > > > > > > >> On Feb 19, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org > > > <mailto:trohrm...@apache.org>> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi Dulaj, > > >> > > >> first of all, sorry for my late reply. > > >> > > >> Yes, we're definitely making the "Machine learning with Apache Flink" a > > GSoC project and it's great to hear that you are interested in this topic. > > At the moment, I'm about to set Flink's machine learning library up with > > some basic algorithms. There is still some work to do in order to figure > > out in which direction it should finally head. But we are confident that we > > can provide a highly usable and still performant tool for many data > > scientists. > > >> > > >> Implementing algorithms with Apache Flink is a little bit different > > from regular programming, because the programming model is a little bit > > more restrictive. Therefore, I'd recommend to familiarize yourself a little > > bit with the system by by reading the documentation [1], going through the > > example jobs contained in the repo [2] and maybe even try to implement one > > job yourself. That is the best way to understand Flink. > > >> > > >> The next step would be try to tackle down one of the starter issues in > > order to get to know how the community works and to become visible for the > > community. You can find the starter issues here [3]. > > >> > > >> Afterwards we can brainstorm a little bit what you could do in the > > context of the GSoC project so that we can make a proposal. > > >> > > >> It would be great, but not strictly required, to have some knowledge of > > Scala, because some of the machine learning library will probably be > > implemented in Scala. > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> Till > > >> > > >> [1] http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.8/index.html < > > http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.8/index.html> > > >> [2] https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/master/flink-examples < > > https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/master/flink-examples> > > >> [3] > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1582?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20Starter > > > < > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1582?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20Starter > > > > > > >> > > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Dulaj Viduranga <vidura...@icloud.com > > > <mailto:vidura...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> I'm Dulaj Viduranga and I’m a 3rd year Computer Science and > > Engineering student at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. > > >> I’m really interested about "Machine learning with Apache > > Flink” Project and wondering if you are planing to make this a GSoC > > project. I have a 5 years Java experience and great knowledge and interest > > about machine learning. I haven’t used Flink or it’s machine learning > > library but I have a good experience with pylearn2 python neural network > > library and also I have made a neural network with java se from the scratch > > in my 2nd year. > > >> If you think I’m up for it, please let me know. > > >> Thank you. > > >> Dulaj Viduranga. > > >> > > > > > > > >
