[mlpack] GSoC 2013

[Ryan Curtin]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 07:30:04AM +0530, Nikhar Agrawal wrote:
> Hi,
> My name is Nikhar Agrawal and I'm currently a second year Btech student.
> I wish to participate in GSoC with mlpack and there are two projects that
> particularly interest me.
> 
> 1.) Packaging in Debian (and Ubuntu)
> 
> Have been extensively using linux for two years now and would love to
> explore it even further.

Packaging in Debian and Ubuntu requires knowledge of the Debian
packaging standards and it may take some time to learn all those
standards properly.  In addition, there will probably be a fair amount
of other work necessary.  For packaging mlpack in Fedora, I had to prove
to the Fedora community that I was a knowledgeable packager by reviewing
several other packages for correctness.

> 2.) Improvement of tree traversers
> 
> I am fairly proficient in c++. Not much experience with metaprogramming
> though I'm afraid. Love algorithms and data structures. Recently
> implemented btrees(one pass though) and extensible hashing. The good thing
> is that I have absolutely nothing else to do in the three months of
> May-July so I can give the project all the time it needs.

See these posts for more information on this project:

https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/mlpack/2013-April/000010.html
https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/mlpack/2013-April/000021.html

Hopefully this information is helpful.

Ryan

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