<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Hi Andreas,<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Just wanted to indicate that I received your email and<br>
</span></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">that I will go on reading the links mentioned.<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">I am in the process of getting permission from my employer to<br>
</span></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">work on an OSS project.<br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">I will stay in touch. Thanks!<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">-Matyas<br>
</span></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"></span><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></span><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Andreas Tille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas@an3as.eu" target="_blank">andreas@an3as.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:11:29PM +0100, Laszlo Kajan wrote:<br>
> * I would like to recommend Matyas as your student for Mentoring of the Month (MoM) for January! [0]<br>
<br>
In general there is no need for a specific recommendation - I'm fine<br>
with anybody who is motivated to work in our team.<br>
<br>
> He is very motivated to learn about packaging for Debian, and has code relevant to bioinformatics (contact predictions: his code [1][2] can do<br>
> sparse matrix inversion, a key element of the newest contact predictors). We asked Dirk Eddelbuettel about his R packages, and he recommended<br>
> 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<br>
> mentoring period, and Matyas is not entirely ready yet to begin, so I think January could work, if both of you like that.<br>
><br>
> [0] <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM" target="_blank">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM</a><br>
<br>
So Matyas, feel free to put yourself on the list (it's a Wiki ;-)) - I'd<br>
be happy to do the mentoring.<br>
<br>
> [1] <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/QUIC/index.html" target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/QUIC/index.html</a><br>
<br>
Usually R packages are very simple to package and a nice start.<br>
<br>
> [2] <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sustik/glassofast/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sustik/glassofast/</a><br>
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Kind regards<br>
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Andreas.<br>
<br>
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