[mlpack] Interested to volunteer as mentor

[omar shrit]

Hello Ryan,

I am actually interested in this project, but I did not thought we have
to send an email since most of the information are available online.

Best regards,

Omar

On 3/9/20 2:55 PM, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:21:34AM +0530, punit vara wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am Punit. I  was GSoC 2016 student for RTEMS org and have been mentor for
>> same organization for 2017 and 2018. I have been work at Intel as Machine
>> Learning Engineer and have extensive experience contributing open source
>> projects as well as mentoring. Since last years  I have also been
>> freelancing for data science and machine learning projects. I would love to
>> volunteer as mentor in mlpack organization. Some of the projects I am
>> preferably interested to mentor are Reinforcement learning, Essential Deep
>> Learning models. I can also help out with  “mlpack on RPi and other
>> resource-constrained devices” as having background in embedded systems and
>> ML but have only minimal related experience contributing to
>> Edge-ML(Microsoft project).
>>
>> Please let me know if I am eligible and can mentor any project even if not
>> in above preferable list.
> Hey Punit,
>
> Thanks for getting in touch.  In general we try to select mentors who
> have already been a part of the community for a long time.  However, I
> think it would be fine for someone new to the community to be a
> co-mentor, if any mentors are interested.
>
> The embedded systems bit sounds exciting to me, but so far there hasn't
> been too much student interest in the project.  Perhaps that 5.25"
> floppy on my desk with the mlpack sticker on it will remain blank for
> another year. :)
>
> I hope this is helpful---please do feel free to start poking around on
> Github, helping review PRs, contribute, etc., whatever you like.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan
>