Airavata GSoC 2014 plans

[Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org>]

Hi All,

Apache Airavata will participate in GSoC 2014 through the Apache Software Foundation as we did last couple of years. We hope to have a good number of project ideas as we did in the past. in 2013, there were 6 airavata based gsoc projects accepted. 

We will soon propose the ideas, but for now the best thing is to get a overview of Airavata by playing around with recently released 0.11 version. The trunk may be broken as you can sense from the dev list, there is a lot of activity to re-architect a bit in preparation for Airavata 1.0 release with a stable API and component level CPI’s. 

Quite frankly, Airavata GSoC tend to be non-trivial and time consuming. But we take the projects very seriously and look for students who are committed to get the projects integrated into main code base and continue supporting them and be engaged with the community. For students who continue to be engaged beyond gsoc we try to get them onboard as committers and support if they would like to publish technical and research papers. But all these, after you pass the gsoc hurdles which tend to be higher than an average gsoc project. The following two mail threads from last year are still relevant. 

http://markmail.org/message/rmotieckqj3a4xxv
http://markmail.org/message/rw2qzpukheow5aiy

Please do not take on challenge of airavata, unless you really have good amount of time to spare. This year, we will hope to have more concrete projects with well-defined weekly sprints and we will try to be rigid in passing mid-terms and finals. All of it will be compensated by a committed mentorship though. 

Suresh

Re: Airavata GSoC 2014 plans

[Nipun Udara <y....@gmail.com>]

Hi Suresh,

Thanks for briefing the Airavata GSOC and  the past year projects. I
think gsockers
have to work with Airavata 1.0. I would like to Know when you planned to
release a stable version of new Airavata 1.0

Regards
Udara.


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Apache Airavata will participate in GSoC 2014 through the Apache Software
> Foundation as we did last couple of years. We hope to have a good number of
> project ideas as we did in the past. in 2013, there were 6 airavata based
> gsoc projects accepted.
>
> We will soon propose the ideas, but for now the best thing is to get a
> overview of Airavata by playing around with recently released 0.11 version.
> The trunk may be broken as you can sense from the dev list, there is a lot
> of activity to re-architect a bit in preparation for Airavata 1.0 release
> with a stable API and component level CPI's.
>
> Quite frankly, Airavata GSoC tend to be non-trivial and time consuming.
> But we take the projects very seriously and look for students who are
> committed to get the projects integrated into main code base and continue
> supporting them and be engaged with the community. For students who
> continue to be engaged beyond gsoc we try to get them onboard as committers
> and support if they would like to publish technical and research papers.
> But all these, after you pass the gsoc hurdles which tend to be higher than
> an average gsoc project. The following two mail threads from last year are
> still relevant.
>
> http://markmail.org/message/rmotieckqj3a4xxv
> http://markmail.org/message/rw2qzpukheow5aiy
>
> Please do not take on challenge of airavata, unless you really have good
> amount of time to spare. This year, we will hope to have more concrete
> projects with well-defined weekly sprints and we will try to be rigid in
> passing mid-terms and finals. All of it will be compensated by a committed
> mentorship though.
>
> Suresh
>
>
>