I've been holding off on wading into this, but I think that some sort of an
idea has jelled.
I wonder about Google's statement of the mission. If Google's statement of
the mission is: "Get smart students involved in open source," then we have
one situation. If, on the other hand, it is more like "
On 4/23/2010 4:45 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden
wrote:
On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it
must be rewarded.
If original just means not going for one of t
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden
wrote:
> On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
>>
>> The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it
>> must be rewarded.
>
> If original just means not going for one of the ideas proposed by a mentor
> for GSoC and explor
On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it
must be rewarded.
If original just means not going for one of the ideas proposed by a
mentor for GSoC and exploring what's needed, including the issues in
Jira and attracting a
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Kathey Marsden
wrote:
> On 4/22/2010 9:26 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined
>>> successful students in Mahout (which is definitely l
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kathey Marsden
wrote:
> On 4/22/2010 7:24 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>
>> Original Ideas are good
>> ===
>>
>> Past experience has shown that if a student proposes their own idea and it
>> is accepted the student is going to be strong.
>>
>> PRO
+1 to all below.
-Rahul
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
> I'd like to make a few comments about issues that have arisen during the
> evaluation process for GSoC. I'm going to give my opinion on each, please
> treat this as lazy consensus - do speak up if you wish to disagr
On 4/22/2010 9:26 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined
successful students in Mahout (which is definitely less standards driven).
In Derby and similar projects, I think that this c
