[mlpack] Reg: [MLPACK] [GSOC 2016] OpenSource Contribution through GSOC

[Ryan Curtin]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:00:26PM +0530, Sushma Reddy wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am Sushma, 4th year Computer Science student in IIIT Hyderabad.
> 
> I have worked on a few projects in Machine Learning.
> 
> I am very much interested in contributing to Open Source software. I have
> participated in Outreachy (OPW) 2015 and worked on a project in VideoLAN. I
> am very much interested in ML and would like to contribute to mlpack. And I
> want to work on "Implement tree types" as part of Google Summer of Code
> 2016.
> 
> I have compiled mlpack and not have gone through the tutorials provided.
> Kindly suggest how should I get started to contribute to mlpack and also
> can you please give a detailed description of how many trees are expected
> to be implemented,etc regarding the project mentioned above.

Hi there Sushma,

A lot of emails have been sent on the mailing list about the tree types
project.  Here is a link to one (which in turn has links to more):

https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/mlpack/2016-March/000760.html

To get started contributing, you might take a look at this webpage:

http://www.mlpack.org/involved.html

Thanks,

Ryan

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