Xapian devel - Mar 2011 - GSOC 2011 : Weighting Schemes and Matcher Optimisations

Hello,

My name is Santiago Pina and I am currently studying two BSc(Hon)
simultaneously ; one in Computer Science and the other in Mathematics as
part of a pilot project at Universidad de Murcia. I am very excited to
contribute in open source community through the platform of Google Summer of
Code 2011.  I was interested in the Weighting Schemes project and in the
Matcher Optimisations project, since I have almost 2 years experience with
C++ and a strong mathematical knowledge.  I have very good knowledge about
algorithms and data structures and it drove me to a silver medal at the 2010
South-western Europe Regional Contest (ACM ICPC) . I am very interested in
search engine projects, since I worked in a small project about web search
engine with University of Murcia. I know I have to much to learn but I feel
ready to work hard and that is why I want to colaborate whith Xapian
 through GSoC 2011.I don?t know if the  Matcher Optimisations project will
be to dificult for me, but I would like to try it and learn as much as it
possible. Can anybody help me deciding to wich project  should  I apply?

Pleasure to meet everyone,

Santiago
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:05:04PM +0100, Santiago Pina Ros
wrote:
> I don't know if the  Matcher Optimisations project will
> be to dificult for me, but I would like to try it and learn as much as it
> possible. Can anybody help me deciding to wich project  should  I apply?
Sorry for not responding sooner.

It sounds like you have suitable skills for either project from what
you've told us.  So far, the weighting schemes project idea has had
the most interest, so if you are interested in both and undecided which
to consider, I would steer you towards the matcher optimisations idea.

Feel free to jump on IRC (#xapian on freenode) if you want to discuss
a bit more interactively.  Questions here are fine too of course.

Cheers,
    Olly