On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:10 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.

I suggest having the project proposals ready and published by the time the application window for students opens. The timeline should be on the GSoC site. -- Johan

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_... [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 wrote:

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus 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/faq...

Looking forward to reading your übercool proposals :-)

Sergiu

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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 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_... [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 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/faq...

Looking forward to reading your übercool proposals :-)

Sergiu

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