As some folks have described on this thread, it would be great to get you familiarized with SystemML.
In parallel, I would look for a mentor from the active committer list and start working on a project proposal which could be based on the recent Roadmap discussion [1]. If you are looking for some guidance on how Apache participate on GSOC, take a look at the following resources [2] and [3], and don't hesitate to ask questions here. [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org/msg01199.html [2] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html [3] http://www.slideshare.net/luckbr1975/how-mentoring-can-help-you-start-contributing-to-open-source On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Krishna Kalyan <krishnakaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Developers, > I am Krishna, currently a 2nd year Masters student in (MSc. in Data Mining) > currently in Barcelona studying at Université Polytechnique de Catalogne. > I was interested in contributing to SystemML this year under GSoc program. > Could anyone please guide on how to go about it?. (I understand the I need > to write a proposal) > > Related Experience: > My masters is mostly focussed on data mining techniques. Before my masters, > I was a data engineer with IBM (India). I was responsible for managing 50 > node Hadoop Cluster for more than a year. Most of my time was spent > optimising and writing ETL (Apache Pig) jobs. > > I am the most comfortable with Python followed by R and Scala. > > My Webpage > kkalyan.in > > My Spark Pull Requests > https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr%20author% > 3Akrishnakalyan3%20 > > Thank you so much, > Krishna > -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
