As Heinrich said, write a proposal.  It's a good idea to write one (or more) before the actual deadline since that will leave enough time for discussion.  The proposal is not just between you and the mentors -- it's a good thing to have a public discussion about this, and it's a good way to find a mentor for you.

On 14 February 2012 10:28, Andrei Varanovich <dotnetby@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

One question to more experienced GSoC'ers. I do understand that this is important to find mentors in advance.
As soon as I think nowadays it is critical for the programming language ecosystem to handle BigData [1], have a proposal to implement HDFS [1] support for CloudHaskell [2] with some MapReduce abstractions.

What would be the "right" way to communicate with potential mentors? I looked at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ and it seems there is not so much going on there. Or, perhaps, this mailing list is just OK?

[1] http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation
[2] http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/
[3] https://github.com/jepst/CloudHaskell

Thanks,
Andrei


On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Sergiu Ivanov <unlimitedscolobb@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus
<apfelmus@quantentunnel.de> wrote:
>
> What's the time frame for project proposals? I have two ideas in my head
> that I think are unusually cool. To make a successful SOC project, they need
> a bit of preparation on my part, though, so I'm wondering how much time I
> have to implement a proof of concept or two.

This is the official timeline:
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline

Looking forward to reading your übercool proposals :-)

Sergiu

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