Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-08-26 Thread Ulrich Stärk
I believe GCI will start after GSoC is over, which would be end of next month. Uli On 2013-08-24 04:32, Tim Williams wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Ross Gardler > wrote: >> On 2 March 2013 17:58, Tim Williams wrote: >> >>> >>> Wow, that's pretty awesome, I'd like for us to start part

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-08-23 Thread Tim Williams
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 2 March 2013 17:58, Tim Williams wrote: > >> >> Wow, that's pretty awesome, I'd like for us to start participating in >> this - these are tomorrow's committers:) What a great soft >> introduction! >> >> > Brilliant. Consider yourself commi

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-09 Thread Charith Madusanka
Now Apache on the organizations list. [1] [1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Ian Boston wrote: > IIUC it needs the organisation to create a profile page before it will show > up in the list. I assume an Org admin will have recei

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Boston
IIUC it needs the organisation to create a profile page before it will show up in the list. I assume an Org admin will have received something for apache. (info from the gsoc mentors list). Ian On 9 April 2013 16:38, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > A little patience please. We are investigating. > > Uli

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-08 Thread Ulrich Stärk
A little patience please. We are investigating. Uli On 09.04.2013 00:30, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Joe Brockmeier wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013, at 04:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 >>> Am I missing something, or did Apache not make it this y

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Joe Brockmeier wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013, at 04:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Am I missing something, or did Apache not make it this year?! I'm wondering if the list is fully populated. Front page says 177 organizations, the accepted orgs p

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-08 Thread Suresh Marru
Nice catch Joe. Melenge Admins, Should we wait for the full list of 177 orgs to be published? Currently we only see 104. Thanks, Suresh On Apr 8, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > I'm wondering if the list is fully populated. Front page says 177 > organizations, the accepted orgs page

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-08 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013, at 04:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 > > Am I missing something, or did Apache not make it this year?! I'm wondering if the list is fully populated. Front page says 177 organizations, the accepted orgs page says it lists 1

GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

2013-04-08 Thread Rob Weir
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Am I missing something, or did Apache not make it this year?! -Rob

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Dan Filimon
Hi everyone, We finally have a project idea (hoping to add more!) [1]. Did it show up in the ideas list? [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1177 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Congrats!!, you seem to have many more interesting stuff going on

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi Dan, Congrats!!, you seem to have many more interesting stuff going on than gsoc itself. Great that you triggering gsoc ideas amongst all of it. I was just doing a friendly reminder to ensure PMC is watching and comfortable with the ideas so the students will have some one to reach out when

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Dan Filimon
I'm actually not planning to mentor the project myself. I mean of course, I'll help the mentors or students if they need, but this summer is pretty hectic for me (graduating, moving to a new city...) so I can't take on the commitment. And, I'll become a committer soon enough I think. I'm working o

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Suresh Marru
On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Dan Filimon wrote: > Thanks! We have a JIRA. > I'm not on the private list. Have yet to become a committer. :) > I'll let everyone know so we can get the ideas going. Hi Dan, Every one is encouraged to propose ideas, but will you have one of the committers official

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Ulrich Stärk
You should ask the PMC to forward my original mail to your dev list then. Uli On 26.03.2013 20:43, Dan Filimon wrote: > Thanks! We have a JIRA. > I'm not on the private list. Have yet to become a committer. :) > I'll let everyone know so we can get the ideas going. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Dan Filimon
Thanks! We have a JIRA. I'm not on the private list. Have yet to become a committer. :) I'll let everyone know so we can get the ideas going. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Hey Dan, > > On 26.03.2013 18:25, Dan Filimon wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm working on Mahout and

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Hey Dan, On 26.03.2013 18:25, Dan Filimon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working on Mahout and have just realized the deadline for GSOC is > this week! We haven't made up a list of ideas or found mentors yet. > > Are we too late? > Almost. Did none of my two emails to your private list get thro

Mahout in GSOC 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Dan Filimon
Hi everyone, I'm working on Mahout and have just realized the deadline for GSOC is this week! We haven't made up a list of ideas or found mentors yet. Are we too late?

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-03-16 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi Manish, Good that you are starting early, some projects have started to tag gsoc 2013 but not all. At this time, I suggest you take a look at GSOC 2012 ideas to get an idea - http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012ideas . Also if you are interested in a particular project at ASF (http://apache.org

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-03-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/03/2013 Luciano Resende wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Manish Agrawal wrote: I want to participate in GSoC 2013 through one of the ASF projects. [...] The projects are starting to create their project ideas, and you can start browsing them at https://issues.apache.org/jira

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-03-15 Thread Luciano Resende
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Manish Agrawal wrote: > Hi > > I am Manish Agrawal, a 3rd year student of Mathematics and computing > department from IIT Delhi. > > I want to participate in GSoC 2013 through one of the ASF projects. I would > be really thankful if you co

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-05 Thread Carl Hall
If you need any other committers for GCI, put me down! On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 2 March 2013 17:58, Tim Williams wrote: > > > > > Wow, that's pretty awesome, I'd like for us to start participating in > > this - these are tomorrow's committers:) What a great soft

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 2 March 2013 17:58, Tim Williams wrote: > > Wow, that's pretty awesome, I'd like for us to start participating in > this - these are tomorrow's committers:) What a great soft > introduction! > > Brilliant. Consider yourself committed ;-) I'll nag you nearer the time. Ross > -- > Ross Gard

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Tim Williams
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > On Mar 2, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> On 2 March 2013 10:37, Shane Curcuru wrote: >> >>> Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code >>> project? >> >> >> Google have always, in the past, been agains

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Suresh Marru
On Mar 2, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 2 March 2013 10:37, Shane Curcuru wrote: > >> Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code >> project? > > > Google have always, in the past, been against non-code projects in GSoC. > > Assuming this has not chan

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 2 March 2013 10:37, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code > project? Google have always, in the past, been against non-code projects in GSoC. Assuming this has not changed, your ideas are better suited to the other initiative which is

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi Shane, a big + 1 for what you want to accomplish, but I am afraid it might not qualify as a GSOC project. There was a discussion on gsoc mentor lists recently if CSS qualifies as a gsoc project. There were mixed opinions without concluding thoughts but it was clear documentation does not qua

GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Shane Curcuru
Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code project? We often decry the lack of understandable or organized technical documentation, especially on the apache.org site. Similarly, we could do a much better job simply clearly describing things for branding, making fu

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-24 Thread Ulrich Stärk
I won't be at ApacheCon but Noirin is to my knowledge. Uli On Sun, February 24, 2013 17:35, Suresh Marru wrote: > Hi All, > > I am giving a talk on Tuesday about Student Engagement with Apache > Projects - http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/134/. As I polish > my slides, I realize the

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-24 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi All, I am giving a talk on Tuesday about Student Engagement with Apache Projects - http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/134/. As I polish my slides, I realize the improvements on GSOC will be a great topic to brainstorm in this session. Any volunteers to help me with this talk? I

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-15 Thread Ulrich Stärk
+1 What I like about our current approach is that it filters out those who are not willing to work with an issue tracker which is a fairly common thing to do as an open source developer. Concensus at the summit seemed to be that it's a good idea to filter out those very early that are not willi

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-15 Thread Luciano Resende
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: >> ...I would like to make things a little more simple for the students to >> find the project that best match their skiils or the areas of their >> interest. The idea is to crawl

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > ...I would like to make things a little more simple for the students to > find the project that best match their skiils or the areas of their > interest. The idea is to crawl our jira issues and add some more > metadata to the jira based on

GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

2013-02-15 Thread Luciano Resende
Currently, PMCs have been entering project ideas as JIRAs defects, and students have been browsing a JIRA query that aggregates the ideas from all PMCs. I would like to make things a little more simple for the students to find the project that best match their skiils or the areas of their interest