On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still a fan of GSOC, Same here - though thinking back I may just have been extremely lucky with the students I had gotten. > but there is no chance I have enough time to help > Again same here. Note: This doesn't mean that GSoC is a whole lot of work. Actually I never really noticed and it was always a good way to learn where in the project we are lacking documentation or the bread crumbs to find the docs. It's just slightly bad timing that GSoC starts roundabout the time that Berlin Buzzwords needs quite a bit of my attention. > (although my working with Dan recently is a bit of a counter example) > > A good point to take up maybe: If you know students who are looking for a project (not necessarily in machine learning, as pointed out earlier, even optimisation and building better examples and integration are welcome projects) it may be worth pointing them to the mailing list. There's a good chance that committers have (or can create) the cycles needed to mentor a motivated student. Isabel
