[GSoC] Fwd: Announcing OBF Google Summer of Code Accepted Students

[Peter Cock]

The announcement is also on the OBF news blog now:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/04/students-selected-for-gsoc/

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From: Robert Buels <rbuels at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Subject: [Bioperl-l] Announcing OBF Google Summer of Code Accepted Students
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Hello all,

I'm very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics
Foundation has selected 5 very capable students to work on OBF
projects this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code program.

The accepted students, their projects, and their mentors (in
alphabetical order):

Wibowo Arindrarto
   SearchIO Implementation in Biopython
   mentored by Peter Cock

Lenna Peterson
   Diff My DNA: Development of a Genomic Variant Toolkit for Biopython
   mentored by Brad Chapman

Marjan Povolni
   The worlds fastest parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in D, and an
   interfacing biogem plugin for Ruby
   mentored by Pjotr Prins, Francesco Strozzi, Raoul Bonnal

Artem Tarasov
   Fast parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in C++, with Ruby FFI bindings
   mentored by Pjotr Prins, Francesco Strozzi, Raoul Bonnal

Clayton Wheeler
   Multiple Alignment Format parser for BioRuby
   mentored by Francesco Strozzi and Raoul Bonnal

As in every year, we received many great applications and ideas.
However, funding and mentor resources are limited, and we were not
able to accept as many as we would have liked.  Our deepest thanks to
all the students who applied: we sincerely appreciate the time and
effort you put into your applications, and hope you will still
consider being a part of the OBF's open source projects, even without
Google funding.  I speak for myself and all of the mentors who read
and scored applications when I say that we were truly honored by the
number and quality of the applications we received.

For the accepted students: congratulations!  You have risen to the top
of a very competitive application process.  Now it's time to "put your
money where your mouth is", as the saying goes.  Let's get out there
and write some great code this summer!

Best regards,

Rob

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Robert Buels
OBF GSoC 2012 Administrator
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