From hlapp at gmx.net Mon Mar 9 23:42:22 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:42:22 -0400 Subject: [BioSQL-l] Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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? 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 18:59:33 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:59:33 -0400 Subject: [BioSQL-l] Google Summer of Code: application submitted, action needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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: [BioSQL-l] 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 cjfields at illinois.edu Wed Mar 18 15:08:48 2009 From: cjfields at illinois.edu (Chris Fields) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:08:48 -0500 Subject: [BioSQL-l] OBF application for Summer of Code has been rejected In-Reply-To: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> References: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> Message-ID: Hilmar, The idea was floated on the google SOC list that language-specific organizations that have been accepted may potentially take bioinformatics-related applications. Specifically, Jonathan Leto (from The Perl Foundation) indicated that bioinformatics-related projects using BioPerl might be able to apply through them. Not sure about others (Python Software Foundation, etc) but might be worth checking into. Any idea on who's been accepted beyond NEScent? chris On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote: > 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 : > =========================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > BioSQL-l mailing list > BioSQL-l at lists.open-bio.org > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biosql-l From hlapp at gmx.net Tue Mar 10 03:42:22 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:42:22 -0400 Subject: [BioSQL-l] Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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? 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 22:59:33 2009 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:59:33 -0400 Subject: [BioSQL-l] Google Summer of Code: application submitted, action needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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: [BioSQL-l] 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 cjfields at illinois.edu Wed Mar 18 19:08:48 2009 From: cjfields at illinois.edu (Chris Fields) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:08:48 -0500 Subject: [BioSQL-l] OBF application for Summer of Code has been rejected In-Reply-To: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> References: <44D1FAFD-B5D7-418B-9FDA-6945219A5481@gmx.net> Message-ID: Hilmar, The idea was floated on the google SOC list that language-specific organizations that have been accepted may potentially take bioinformatics-related applications. Specifically, Jonathan Leto (from The Perl Foundation) indicated that bioinformatics-related projects using BioPerl might be able to apply through them. Not sure about others (Python Software Foundation, etc) but might be worth checking into. Any idea on who's been accepted beyond NEScent? chris On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote: > 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 : > =========================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > BioSQL-l mailing list > BioSQL-l at lists.open-bio.org > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biosql-l