[scikit-learn] GSoC 2017

[Raghav R V]

They can still edit a wiki page from their fork of scikit learn I think. So
I'd suggest doing that and mailing to this thread, the link to their
proposal...

On 27 Feb 2017 6:55 p.m., "Nelson Liu" <nfliu at uw.edu> wrote:

> In past years students made a page on the wiki with their proposal; this
> isn't possible anymore due to GitHub permissions. Perhaps an alternative
> method for getting feedback should be suggested on the introduction page?
>
> Nelson Liu
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Gael Varoquaux <
> gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Students have been inquiring about the GSoC (Google Summer of Code) with
>> scikit-learn, and the core team has been quite silent about team.
>>
>> I am happy to announce that we will be taking part in the scikit-learn
>> again. The reason that we decided to do this is to give a chance to the
>> young, talented, and motivated students.
>>
>> Importantly, our most limiting resource is the time of our experienced
>> developers. This is clearly visible from the number of pending pull
>> requests. Hence, we need students to be very able and independent. This
>> of course means that they will be getting supervision from mentors. Such
>> supervision is crucial for moving forward with a good project, that
>> delivers mergeable code. However, we will need the students to be very
>> good at interacting efficiently with the mentors. Also, I should stress
>> that we will be able to take only a very few numbers of students.
>>
>> With that said, let me introduce the 2017 GSoC for scikit-learn. We have
>> set up a wiki page which summarizes the experiences from last year and
>> the ideas for this year:
>> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Google-sum
>> mer-of-code-(GSOC)-2017
>>
>> Interested students should declare their interest on the mailing list,
>> and discuss with possible mentors here. Factors of success will be
>>
>> * careful work on a good proposal, that takes on of the ideas on the wiki
>>   but breaks it down in a realistic plan with multiple steps and shows a
>>   good understanding of the problem.
>>
>> * demonstration of the required skillset via successful pull requests in
>>   scikit-learn.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gaël
>>
>>
>> --
>>     Gael Varoquaux
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