[Debian-med-packaging] MoM (Was: Glasso, QUIC, and else)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:11:29PM +0100, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
> * I would like to recommend Matyas as your student for Mentoring of the Month (MoM) for January! [0]

In general there is no need for a specific recommendation - I'm fine
with anybody who is motivated to work in our team.
 
> He is very motivated to learn about packaging for Debian, and has code relevant to bioinformatics (contact predictions: his code [1][2] can do
> sparse matrix inversion, a key element of the newest contact predictors). We asked Dirk Eddelbuettel about his R packages, and he recommended
> that Matyas does his work in e.g. the med team. It would be great if Matyas could learn the basics from you. Tomas is almost at the end of his
> mentoring period, and Matyas is not entirely ready yet to begin, so I think January could work, if both of you like that.
> 
> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM

So Matyas, feel free to put yourself on the list (it's a Wiki ;-)) - I'd
be happy to do the mentoring.

> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/QUIC/index.html

Usually R packages are very simple to package and a nice start.

> [2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sustik/glassofast/

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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