From hlapp at gmx.net Mon Mar 9 23:44:12 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:44:12 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers In-Reply-To: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> References: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> Message-ID: <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> You may recall my message to the developer lists of several O|B|F projects in February about the idea of O|B|F applying to Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization [1]. I felt that the response to this was very positive and encouraging. Although late (sorry, been swamped too much), I've now put up the skeleton of an ideas page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_Code_2009 I basically modeled (in fact, largely copied) this page after the NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code ideas pages, which I think worked pretty well. We can completely rework this, though - any feedback and suggestions are very much welcome. In the meantime, I need all developers to double check the information under 'Contact'. Would the open-bio-l mailing list indeed reach the prospective mentors and other devs? Will be you be fine with students asking for feedback to their applications on the developers (i.e., this) list? Is there a blessed IRC where at least some of the prospective mentors hang out for students to ask questions during the time they apply? I also need space for the reference information for all projects that will participate with at least one project idea (I would hope that that's all projects) to be added in the 'Open-Bio projects involved' section. ***** Most important of all, if you can volunteer to mentor a project, please post a project idea to the page in the respective section, using the idea template that's there already (copy, paste, and edit). ***** The deadline for organization applications is Friday this week, Mar 13, which is very soon. The ideas page is a major factor and component in how Google scores new mentoring organizations - the more we can show the resourcefulness and diversity of our member projects the more competitive I think we'll be. So all those who responded with ideas or willingness to help out as primary or secondary mentores earlier, I need you to think about and put up your idea(s) now. Cheers, -hilmar [1] http://tinyurl.com/ck7tqe -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Sat Mar 14 18:59:24 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:59:24 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Google Summer of Code: application submitted, action needed In-Reply-To: <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> References: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> Message-ID: <6643DE07-6A1F-46A4-8277-E943281BA501@gmx.net> Hi all, I have submitted the application yesterday for O|B|F participating in the 2009 Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. The application is at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhs98hzv_7zn8bxqjm and is also linked to from the ideas page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009 Now keep your fingers crossed, Google is slated to announce acceptances on March 18. This is the last cross-project message re: Summer of Code that addresses mentors and our projects; future messages that I'll post across projects will be primarily for students such as announcing whether we are accepted or not and issuing calls for application. **What we need most and right now is action from our projects' developers and from possible mentors.** Google admins will start reviewing organization applications on Monday. The ideas page has 6 project ideas right now - though the ideas are good ones, the quantity won't be particularly impressive to Google. Therefore, if you have an idea for a summer project for a student please use the C& template (it is commented out now but you'll see it when you pull the Ideas section into the editor) and put it up there ASAP. If you're not sure yet who'll mentor, put tentative names there. We don't need a full commitment from mentors until the student application period starts (March 23). Next, for all projects, the leads and/or volunteers should check the reference information for their project: http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#Open-Bio_projects_involved I just culled these links from the various project websites - it'd be much appreciated if going forward everyone can lend a hand in this. Please review what's there and add or fix as you see fit. *These links must be correct and complete - otherwise potential students may not find you.* Finally, all prospective mentors, primary or secondary, committed or not, and anyone else who would like to volunteer to help out, should subscribe themselves ASAP to the mailing list for communicating GSoC- related administrivia: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc I will *not* cross-post all administrative announcements or requests for information, and so you *will* miss information if you don't subscribe yourself there. (Note: students will be subscribed there only *after* acceptance). Those who are considering to mentor, primary or helping out, please also add yourselves to the Mentors section on the Ideas page (and check your link if you're already there): http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#Mentors Cheers everyone, and fingers crossed! -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Wed Mar 18 14:45:50 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:45:50 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] OBF application for Summer of Code has been rejected Message-ID: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> I hope to find out later why, but our Google Summer of Code application as an umbrella org has been rejected. However, NESCent has been accepted. If you can give your project idea a phylogenetics/phyloinformatics focus, go and put it up on the NESCent ideas page at http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 Do so pretty much **now** - we will start broadcasting and reaching out to students tonight and tomorrow. If someone comes to the site and they don't see a Bio* project that they would have been interested in, they may not check back for updates. -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Sun Mar 29 14:41:12 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:41:12 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Reminder: Student application deadline for Summer of Code 2009 Message-ID: *** Please disseminate widely to students at your institution. *** *** Note: Among the ideas and mentors are BioPerl, BioRuby, and BioLib *** PHYLOINFORMATICS SUMMER OF CODE 2009 - STUDENT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 3 http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 The Phyloinformatics Summer of Code program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for evolutionary informatics under the mentorship of experienced developers from around the world. The program is the participation of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code(tm) (http://code.google.com/soc/ ). Students in the program will receive a stipend from Google (and a T- shirt solely available to successful participants), and may work from their home, or home institution, for the duration of the 3 month program. Each student will have at least one dedicated mentor to show them the ropes and help them complete their project. NESCent is particularly targeting students interested in both evolutionary biology and software development. Project ideas are listed on the website and range from hardware acceleration for phylogenetic inference, to support for phyloinformatics standards within the BioPerl and BioRuby toolkits, to alignment of next-gen sequencing data, to ontology term markup for biocuration, to semantic interoperability of web-services, to 3D-printing of phylogenies. All project ideas are flexible and many can be adjusted in scope to match the skills of the student. We also welcome novel project ideas that dovetail with student interests. TO APPLY: Instructions are at the website (see "When you apply"). You can find GSoC program rules and eligibility requirements at http://socghop.appspot.com . ***The 12-day application period for students ends on Friday, April 3rd, 2009, at 19:00 UTC (3pm EDT, 12pm PDT).*** INQUIRIES: phylosoc {at} nescent {dot} org. We strongly encourage all interested students to get in touch with us with their ideas as early as possible. 2009 NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code: http://hackathon.nescent.net/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 Google Summer of Code FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs Cyberinfrastructure Traineeships (managed separately from GSoC; postdocs also eligible): http://hackathon.nescent.org/Cyberinfrastructure_Summer_Traineeships_2009 To sign up for quarterly NESCent newsletters: http://www.nescent.org/about/contact.php --------- Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp National Evolutionary Synthesis Center http://nescent.org From hlapp at gmx.net Tue Mar 10 03:44:12 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:44:12 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers In-Reply-To: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> References: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> Message-ID: <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> You may recall my message to the developer lists of several O|B|F projects in February about the idea of O|B|F applying to Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization [1]. I felt that the response to this was very positive and encouraging. Although late (sorry, been swamped too much), I've now put up the skeleton of an ideas page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_Code_2009 I basically modeled (in fact, largely copied) this page after the NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code ideas pages, which I think worked pretty well. We can completely rework this, though - any feedback and suggestions are very much welcome. In the meantime, I need all developers to double check the information under 'Contact'. Would the open-bio-l mailing list indeed reach the prospective mentors and other devs? Will be you be fine with students asking for feedback to their applications on the developers (i.e., this) list? Is there a blessed IRC where at least some of the prospective mentors hang out for students to ask questions during the time they apply? I also need space for the reference information for all projects that will participate with at least one project idea (I would hope that that's all projects) to be added in the 'Open-Bio projects involved' section. ***** Most important of all, if you can volunteer to mentor a project, please post a project idea to the page in the respective section, using the idea template that's there already (copy, paste, and edit). ***** The deadline for organization applications is Friday this week, Mar 13, which is very soon. The ideas page is a major factor and component in how Google scores new mentoring organizations - the more we can show the resourcefulness and diversity of our member projects the more competitive I think we'll be. So all those who responded with ideas or willingness to help out as primary or secondary mentores earlier, I need you to think about and put up your idea(s) now. Cheers, -hilmar [1] http://tinyurl.com/ck7tqe -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Sat Mar 14 22:59:24 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:59:24 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Google Summer of Code: application submitted, action needed In-Reply-To: <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> References: <06AC1C3A-B128-44A5-900C-50EBC22D36B5@gmx.net> <87E94071-376A-42CB-9A85-956C37DEFE34@gmx.net> Message-ID: <6643DE07-6A1F-46A4-8277-E943281BA501@gmx.net> Hi all, I have submitted the application yesterday for O|B|F participating in the 2009 Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. The application is at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhs98hzv_7zn8bxqjm and is also linked to from the ideas page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009 Now keep your fingers crossed, Google is slated to announce acceptances on March 18. This is the last cross-project message re: Summer of Code that addresses mentors and our projects; future messages that I'll post across projects will be primarily for students such as announcing whether we are accepted or not and issuing calls for application. **What we need most and right now is action from our projects' developers and from possible mentors.** Google admins will start reviewing organization applications on Monday. The ideas page has 6 project ideas right now - though the ideas are good ones, the quantity won't be particularly impressive to Google. Therefore, if you have an idea for a summer project for a student please use the C& template (it is commented out now but you'll see it when you pull the Ideas section into the editor) and put it up there ASAP. If you're not sure yet who'll mentor, put tentative names there. We don't need a full commitment from mentors until the student application period starts (March 23). Next, for all projects, the leads and/or volunteers should check the reference information for their project: http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#Open-Bio_projects_involved I just culled these links from the various project websites - it'd be much appreciated if going forward everyone can lend a hand in this. Please review what's there and add or fix as you see fit. *These links must be correct and complete - otherwise potential students may not find you.* Finally, all prospective mentors, primary or secondary, committed or not, and anyone else who would like to volunteer to help out, should subscribe themselves ASAP to the mailing list for communicating GSoC- related administrivia: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc I will *not* cross-post all administrative announcements or requests for information, and so you *will* miss information if you don't subscribe yourself there. (Note: students will be subscribed there only *after* acceptance). Those who are considering to mentor, primary or helping out, please also add yourselves to the Mentors section on the Ideas page (and check your link if you're already there): http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#Mentors Cheers everyone, and fingers crossed! -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Wed Mar 18 18:45:50 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:45:50 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] OBF application for Summer of Code has been rejected Message-ID: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> I hope to find out later why, but our Google Summer of Code application as an umbrella org has been rejected. However, NESCent has been accepted. If you can give your project idea a phylogenetics/phyloinformatics focus, go and put it up on the NESCent ideas page at http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 Do so pretty much **now** - we will start broadcasting and reaching out to students tonight and tomorrow. If someone comes to the site and they don't see a Bio* project that they would have been interested in, they may not check back for updates. -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at gmx dot net : =========================================================== From hlapp at gmx.net Sun Mar 29 18:41:12 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:41:12 -0400 Subject: [BioLib-dev] Reminder: Student application deadline for Summer of Code 2009 Message-ID: *** Please disseminate widely to students at your institution. *** *** Note: Among the ideas and mentors are BioPerl, BioRuby, and BioLib *** PHYLOINFORMATICS SUMMER OF CODE 2009 - STUDENT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 3 http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 The Phyloinformatics Summer of Code program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for evolutionary informatics under the mentorship of experienced developers from around the world. The program is the participation of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code(tm) (http://code.google.com/soc/ ). Students in the program will receive a stipend from Google (and a T- shirt solely available to successful participants), and may work from their home, or home institution, for the duration of the 3 month program. Each student will have at least one dedicated mentor to show them the ropes and help them complete their project. NESCent is particularly targeting students interested in both evolutionary biology and software development. Project ideas are listed on the website and range from hardware acceleration for phylogenetic inference, to support for phyloinformatics standards within the BioPerl and BioRuby toolkits, to alignment of next-gen sequencing data, to ontology term markup for biocuration, to semantic interoperability of web-services, to 3D-printing of phylogenies. All project ideas are flexible and many can be adjusted in scope to match the skills of the student. We also welcome novel project ideas that dovetail with student interests. TO APPLY: Instructions are at the website (see "When you apply"). You can find GSoC program rules and eligibility requirements at http://socghop.appspot.com . ***The 12-day application period for students ends on Friday, April 3rd, 2009, at 19:00 UTC (3pm EDT, 12pm PDT).*** INQUIRIES: phylosoc {at} nescent {dot} org. We strongly encourage all interested students to get in touch with us with their ideas as early as possible. 2009 NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code: http://hackathon.nescent.net/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 Google Summer of Code FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs Cyberinfrastructure Traineeships (managed separately from GSoC; postdocs also eligible): http://hackathon.nescent.org/Cyberinfrastructure_Summer_Traineeships_2009 To sign up for quarterly NESCent newsletters: http://www.nescent.org/about/contact.php --------- Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp National Evolutionary Synthesis Center http://nescent.org