[Gluster-devel] Academic project in Distributed systems

[Justin Clift]

----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> 
> I'm Vipul. I'm currently in my final year of computer engineering and would
> like some guidance on choosing an academic project to spend 2-3 months
> working on it. I've got a little experience in some internal Glusterfs
> components. But overall, I'm interested in contributing to the field of
> Distributed systems, OS or Cloud. Although an opportunity to contribute back
> to an Open source project including Gluster or some another would be great,
> but a research oriented project in this domain would be really exciting to
> work on.

As a first thought before recommending stuff, which programming languages do
you have a good understanding of (and like to use)?

That will help figure things out.  Also, how good are your math skills?  If
they're very strong, then some of the clustering algorithm stuff might be
the thing to look at. :)


> On another note, I apologize if this email perceives you to be a misuse of
> the mailing list, but I'd really be grateful, if I could get any pointers
> regarding this.

You're fine.  It's not abuse of the mailing list at all. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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