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I'm really happy to have the opportunity to work on this project. As I have already written in my proposal, from May 5th to May 17th I will be in Japan (because of a Marriage) and I don't know if I will have an internet connection in my hotel. Today I have to work on my thesis, but I plan to complete my design document and clear my major doubts by the end of the week. What do you plan to use for the Video call?
When working on my proposal for Yafaray, I really enjoyed the presence of an IRC room to discuss. The mailing list or the forum are good for more complicated questions, but a chat is better for quick questions and to know each other.
Congratulations to all the other accepted students!
Antonio
P.S. I have already created my branch and I will probably already commit something in the following days. In fact, I plan to use the JOGL 2 library, instead of JOGL 1.1.1, and I will include a new wrapper in the project.
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Let's read this article about the applications of network science: http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/networked
It greatly outlines what's at stake!
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First of all I want to thank you for choosing me to cooperate. I will not disappoint you.
Getting down to brass tacks, I will do all the necessary things at the end of the week. As the colleague above, I also have got some school work at the moment (especially one nasty exam concerning BPM).
I hope we will have got a fruitful collaboration
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I am very happy that I was chosen as a student. To all this communication, branches and mailing lists, I will join it at the end of this week because of a lot of work in the school. I am actually still reading some articles about indexing and at the end of this week I will make a document summarizing some ideas, problems and maybe also implementation details in similar form as I made previous proposals.
Again thanks for choosing and the idea of winter contest is very good, I will surely join it
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Thank you for so much enthusiasm and great work. I'm sorry for those who didn't make it, I'm sure you enjoyed the experience and learn a lot.
Congrats to winners, you're now part of the team and we want to make you comfortable. In the next two weeks we will know each other better, work on specifications and make it clear how we will communicate and exchange information. That is the plan to maximize knowledge sharing and communication:
* A new dev mailing-list has been created, we didn't use such a ML yet but it will become the root of all code questions. It's not always easy to understand and reuse someone else's code. I'll will answer all your questions on APIs and share the maximum about Gephi's internal design there.
* The wiki has now a Dev Portal, each of GSoC projects has a specification page you can fill. Please copy-paste your application there and complete with all the information you found useful to describe your plan. We will discuss together and freeze remaining hesitations.
* Have a Video call with your mentor, to know each other better. Your mentor will contact you.
* Create and publish your branch on Bazaar. Have a look here and see Code Sharing wiki page. You'll all have your own branch for working on your project.
Good luck and welcome to the Gephi team, you can really make a difference here, I'm very excited to work with you
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In the name of the team I would thank all of you for your participation. Choosing only six of you were extremely difficult because of the quality of most proposals. We requested a 7th slot, but didn't succeed in getting one more. As Gephi is still a young project and will continue to grow until next summer, I have good faith that today selected students become mentors themselves for next GSoC, hence appealing contributors to work on their sides, like Julian and Jeremy.
I personally congratulate Yi, Martin, Andre, Christopher, Cezary and Antonio for their ability to demonstrate high values and motivation, and passing through the hell's gate of technical and skills requirements. Guys, your detailed proposals were outstanding!
Therefore GSoC is just a piece of life for an open source project. Other contributors are welcome! Be part of the community is a chance to exchange knowledge in the field of complex networks / networks science, and improve your programming skills. We won't have as much time to spend with everybody as we would like to, but we will always help you using and developing Gephi the best way we can
Note that we will probably build a Student Contest in winter with smaller projects. Keep in touch!
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The official results will be announced by Google tonight...you can wait by reading this article: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, it's plenty of wisdom.
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Thanks for all of your proposals, most of the 26 (10 more than last year!!) worth a slot! It's now time for Gephi team to review them and guide you to achieve the writing of outstanding proposals...
Some stats:
#candidates, project
7 Data Laboratory
4 Direct social network import
3 Dynamic attributes and statistics
3 Graph streaming API
3 Force-directed edge bundling
2 Shader engine
2 Support for Neo4j in Gephi
1 Web-based network visualization engine with WebGL -> very weird as we said that we dismissed this project.
1 Implementation of sources and sinks for vertices within Gephi
World map of the applicants here.
In order to save some time, please make sure you included a roadmap and a list of expected hurdles. A roadmap/timeline is mandatory to evaluate your ability to plan your work. Identifying hurdles or difficulties help us to prepare mentor's work.
How to succeed or fail at Google Summer of Code ? I advise you to watch this interviews : http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/node/374
Also have a look on these 10 golden rules for starting with open source if you're new in the field
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I am familiar with Java (Swing, Java 3D, J2EE), C/C++, Python and Perl. I do most of my coding in Java. I built a multi / single player Ludo game using Java. I made two versions for this game, one using Swing and the other using Java 3D. I Designed a transaction manager similar to the one used by an application server. It was built using Java and XML. I also built the “Tiger” compiler using C++, Lex and Yacc.
A professor told us about Gephi as part of a course (“Graph theory”) that I took last year. As far as I know, Gephi is the best out there for graph visualization, editing etc. and the cherry on top is that it is open source as well. So we can use it to test our own algorithms.
My MS Thesis is based on graphs, so I have a thorough understanding of different graph algorithms. That is why I wanted to work with Gephi over the summer. My main interest is the data laboratory project.
We need not restrict ourselves to only this proposal. I would be more than happy to lend a hand in some other development of Gephi as part of this summer and even beyond. I look forward to working with you guys.
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My name is André Panisson. I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Informatics Department, University of Turin, Italy. I completed my Bsc and Msc in Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where I maintain interactions with researchers in the Computer Networks group.
I am participating now in the Computer and Security Network group at University of Turin, and our main research areas are distributed applications that involves P2P and Social-based approaches. I am also contributing to the Complex Networks and Systems Research Group at ISI Foundation and the SocioPatterns project, under the coordination of Prof. Ciro Cattuto.
Recently, I worked in the implementation of a recommender system for web-based Personal Video Recorders, a work which involved the analysis of a huge similarity graph of ~100k users and ~5 million connections. My group is also working in analysis of other social networks as Last.fm, Flickr and Anobii. I have interest in the dynamics of information forwarding in mobile networks, which involves the analysis of contact graphs in real and simulated environments.
Who presented Gephi to me was Prof. Ciro Cattuto at ISI Foundation in Turin. We are working in the SocioPatterns project, which aim is the development and deployment of an experimental social interaction sensing platform. This platform consists of portable sensing devices and software tools for aggregating, analyzing and visualizing the resulting data.
The SocioPatterns project currently uses Gephi mainly for exploratory data analysis and visualization, but the feature that really excits me is the support for dynamic networks, and the readiness of the Gephi data model for dynamical update of graph topology and attributes.
This suits very well the large-scale real-time data sources we are dealing with. The potential for processing live streams from our experiments is a unique feature that we are eager to see implemented.
As I have already good skills as a Java programmer, my goal for this application is to give a high-quality contribution to the Gephi project, and make it a better tool for research in complex networks.
Regards,
André.
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This is the first time I am reaching out to be a part of an open source project. However, I am volunteering as the developer and Webmaster for the website of Society of Women Engineers at SJSU. I am also working as a Student Technician on campus, and help trouble-shooting the Windows/Unix based computers and other equipment.
Having taken up programming in Java three years ago, I feel at home with it. I have some degree of experience developing Java Swing applications both for school as well as personal programming projects. I am good at Core Java, XML, SQL, and JavaScript.
I would love to work on Data Laboratory project because I am very interested in Java Swing programming and large data sets. I believe problems associated with display and manipulation of large data sets is something that can be definitely improved. I am also taking a class in Human Computer Interaction, and this project can be a real world experience of the principles I learnt in that course.
I am very excited about this opportunity to be a part of the GSOC program working on the data laboratory project. I really hope that I am given the chance to contribute.
Cheers,
Ying Zuo
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My name is Cristian Regep (Chris) and I’m a first year Informatics student at the University of Edinburgh. My degree is a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering with Management. Before pointing the finger that I’m a first year student I want to add that I have already done two years of a Computer Science with Electronics degree at the “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania and I have worked during that time for local Web development company Timsoft.
Unfortunately I only found out about Gephi through the Google Summer of Code program. I say unfortunately because from what I’ve seen it has useful and interesting applications in what I’m interested in, and it took the Summer of Code to find about it. I said above that after 2 years of studying Computer Science & Electronics I chose to start off again at The University of Edinburgh because I wanted to focus more on Software, Data and Information, and from what I see Gephi is an extremely powerful tool for visualizing and manipulating data & information, which eases the process of study.
I would really enjoy the opportunity to work on this project and I want to start off by implementing the Direct Social Network Import project.
My programming experience is based around PHP & MySQL which I gained at Timsoft while developing Romanian microblogging platform http://www.cirip.ro , a Romanian version of Twitter. I also created a Adobe Flash application which shows connections between users and the last messages sent between them in a node-edge manner. This is where my interest comes into the Direct Social Network Import project, which is very similar in many ways.
I also have extensive Java experience. During the last 2 years I developed in partnership with my former high school, “William Shakespeare” of Timisoara, a system through which teachers can digitally store student grades. I created a program which prints out A5 forms for teacher to write in. After the teachers fills in the grades they are read by a scanner an sent to a ftp. Another program reads the scans from the ftp and stores the read grades in a database. Parents can then see their children’s grades from the comfort of their own home through the school’s website. The whole system was done in Java and is used in my former high school successfully.
I’m looking forward to join this community!
Kind Regards,
Cristian Regep
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I am currently in my first year of a four year MEng degree course in Computer Science at Imperial College London. My interest in this field dates back to high school, when I started learning Java and C/C++ by myself. Althouth the first year of college helped me expand my programming skills, I still feel that the considerably small lab exercises of my course lack the experience of working with large scale software. This is why I have been trying to get involved in different projects that allowed me to enhance my academic experience through a practical approach.
I found out about Gephi while I was working for a research project which dealt with Intelligent Systems and Networks. I was looking for a program to help me create, manipulate and analyze specific social networks and I was quite surprised to find out that, altough very useful when it came to static networks, Gephi did not handle dynamic changes. I would be really excited to contribute to your idea on Dynamic Attributes and Statistics and I am confident that I am capable of doing a good job.
It goes without saying that I would be pleased to be involved in Gephi for a longer period of time
Best Wishes,
Cristina
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I would like to introduce myself a little bit. My name is Martin Skurla, I am a student in 4th year of master degree in Technical University of Kosice in Slovakia. I study informatics (computer science). I am really interested in NetBeans and all stuff around this platform and IDE, so that's why I want to participate in Gephi project. I am very exiting about Gephi as a project because I have never seen such kind of nice visualization project which is open source.
I think I have many experiences with programming in Java, I am SCJP 6 (Sun Certified Java Programmer), between 14.3.2010 and 27.3.2010 I was a team leader in Finland on one IP Erasmus project which we called "Enterprise Integration" (the first part was about creation of Web Services and mainly part was about interconnection of Web Services through ESB using BPEL). Project as a whole was implemented in Java and XML Technologies. I have been working with Java for 3 years. I know Java SE (general Java programming, OOP, RMI, XML processing, Reflection), Swing, Java EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, WS, OpenESB, GWT, JPA), Spring, XML Technologies (XML, DTD, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT).
My Bachelor Thesis vas called "Common Abstraction of System Configuration through XML Documents and Annotations". In this thesis I tried to merge 2 possible kinds of system configuration in Java: XML documents and Java annotations. This was more abstract programming and I created an object model of XML and added data from Annotations to this model. I was using Reflection very intensively (dynamic class loading, dynamic creation of objects and dynamic method invocation, annotation processing). All the work was done in NetBeans, some parts are automated with Ant build tool.
My experience with programming is mainly about Java. Few years abo I was programming in C. I have implemented a game very similar to look and functionality to Minesweeper, distributed application which could share and download data from connected computers, some information systems implemented in Java SE or Java EE (GWT in presentation layer), I created a Java parser with LEX and YACC (which translated source codes directly into bytecode instructions).
From my point of view, project proposal that really fits to me is "Adding support for Neo4j in Gephi". I'm really interested in this project because I red a lot about Neo4j and I think bringing some interoperability into Gephi project is great idea.
Actually I have no other plans for summer, so I plan to fully concentrate on this project.
I posted a proposal on google site
Regards,
Martin Skurla
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My name is Luis Herrera and I am from NJ. I am currently an undergraduate working towards obtaining a degree in Interactive Multimedia and a minor in computer science. What caught my attention to Gephi is how nicely done the visualizations are. I have experience working with Processing (love it) and I have seen what can be done with the software. I am interested in working with the Force directed-Edge bundling, Graph streaming API and the Data Laboratory. I also have some ideas that could really simplify things so that the user can manage the network more efficiently. I am not a seasoned programmer as I have started programming several months ago, but I am confident that I will learn because I am interested in it. Look forward to hearing from you guys
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My name is Ionut Ignatescu and I am from Iasi,Romania. Currently, I follow Master studies (Software Engineering) at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Department of Computer Science.
I'm greatly interested in collaborate in a open source project this year at GSOC competition and the Gephi project really caught my attention because I used Gephi to develop a web project about social networks. Gephi help me to extract and manipulate information about users.
I consider that I have sufficient experience in working with Java, databases and xml files. During the faculty I took part at some competition (Imagine Cup, other local competition ) that helped me to improve my skills. Also, I have a collaboration with a company that develop VOIP software using Java technologies (J2EE and J2SE). There I learned how to design, how to organize and how to develop a project that is greater than a homework and that have more than one modules.
My ambition of being a successful person in my future career as a software engineer first, and then as a software architect, determines me to work hard for my goals and gives me the power to make sacrifices. That is why I strongly believe that taking part at GSoC and developing a project is an important step in my professional life.
My first goal for this summer is to participate at GSoC and successfully develop a project. After that I dream to visit Switzerland.
The Gephi project that attract me the most are Dynamic attributes and statistics and Data Laboratory. The first one is interesting because it permit me to develop a new release of Gephi. The second one means a lot of work and a lot of code which is wonderful. If it will be to develop this project, I will ask to develop GUI in SWT. I have strong experience in using SWT and using it, it is possible to develop user interface much more attractive than Swing UI.
In my opinion, it should be mandatory to follow an internship in a software company during the master studies because it offers the guaranty that people who followed it had the opportunity to practice what he had studied in the faculty. If I were to be one of the chosen to take part at GSoC I would like to mention that I would prefer working at a new project, which could give me the satisfaction of creating something tangible. But this is not something I could not deal without, the simple fact of working at GSoC would be
a great chance of gaining some experience that I could never achieve through theoretical study.
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I remind you to write your application by following the guidelines "Writing you application": http://forum.gephi.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=74
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My name is Pavel Yaskevich and I am Software in Information Technologies Student in Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in Minsk, Belarus. The focus of my course studies has been in the areas of algorithms, programming theory, programming languages and graphs and data structures. I am working as web developer for almost four years, currently interested mostly in Java, Clojure and Ruby. I have been working on few open source projects, such as Gremlin and Webling projects which could be found at Github (http://github.com/tinkerpop). I would like to work under "Adding support for Neo4j in Gephi" issue.
Regards, Pavel.
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