[GSoC-general] Google Summer of Code

[Terri Oda]

On 2016-11-27 12:21 AM, liao andrew wrote:
> Dear python software foundation,
>
>     I’m very interested in the Python’s GSoC program. And I’ve seen
> plenty of awesome work come from this program in the previous years. I
> just wonder if in the next year(2017), will python organization still
> participate in the CSoC, and will you provide more projects about the
> deep learning? Since I believe many people use python to do
> their “deep” work/projects.

We're hoping to participate in GSoC again in 2017, but whether we do 
actually get to participate is up to Google.  We don't know for sure 
until Google makes their selections on February 27.  You can see the 
whole timeline here:

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

We usually start getting project ideas in January and get more added 
until shortly before the student deadline, but you'll be able to see 
most of the projects when the announcement is made in late February.

But that doesn't mean you can't be proactive about getting a project to 
happen!

If you're interested in deep learning stuff, you should take a look at 
the organizations that participated last year and figure out which ones 
are most likely to do the sort of work you're interested in:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016

I'd guess probably scikit-learn would be a likely one.  You can also 
look at other orgs that haven't done gsoc but do deep learning, too, and 
see if they might be interested in doing GSoC.  It's not unheard of for 
a group to join us just because a really promising student talked to 
them. :)

Once you've narrowed down your list to a few groups that do deep 
learning, go look and see what things they might need in the deep 
learning space, and talk to them about what they need, and whether 
there's anything that you could help with.  They aren't going to know 
what GSoC projects they'll be running right now, but they will know what 
things they'd like to build!  Listen carefully to what people tell you, 
and make sure to work on things that are important to the project rather 
than only things you personally find interesting that others aren't as 
excited about (it's usually not too hard to find something that'll 
interest both you and others!).

  Terri