[Bioperl-l] OBF not accepted for GSoC 2013

[Scott Cain]

Hi all, 

I was certainly surprised the the openbio application wasn't accepted; completion must be very tight. I just want to point out another bio project for inclined students: the Genome Informatics project is a GSoC collaboration of several well known projects, including GMOD (chado, gbrowse, jbrowse), Reactome, and Galaxy. For more information, see:

  http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC

Thanks,
Scott


Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Unfortunately this year we have not been accepted on the Google
> Summer of Code scheme:
> 
> I'm sure the rest of the OBF board and the other Bio* developers
> will join me in thanking Pjotr Prins for his efforts as the OBF
> GSoC administrator co-ordinating our application this year, as
> well as last year's administrator Rob Bruels and the other mentors
> for their efforts.
> 
> For those of you not subscribed to the OBF's GSoC mailing list,
> I am forwarding Pjotr's email from last night (also below):
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/gsoc/2013/000211.html
> 
> In all 177 organisations were accepted (about the same as the
> last few years), and they will be listed here (once they have filled
> out their profile information):
> https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013
> 
> To potential students this summer, the good news is that some
> related organisations have been accepted, such as NESCent,
> the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB - known for
> Cytoscape), SciRuby (Ruby Science Foundation), so there is
> still some scope for doing a bioinformatics related project in
> GSoC 2013, perhaps even with a Bio* developer as a co-mentor.
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> Peter
> (Biopython developer, OBF board member)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2010 at thebird.nl>
> Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:13 PM
> Subject: Re: GSoC 2013 is ON
> To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2010 at thebird.nl>
> Cc: ..., OBF GSoC <gsoc at lists.open-bio.org>
> 
> 
> Sadly, our application got rejected by GSoC this year. I am not sure
> what the reason was, but I am convinced our application was similar to
> that of other years. Maybe the project ideas could have been better
> presented. I am not sure at this stage. I'll make a list of successful
> projects to see if we can digest some truths.
> 
> The upside is that FOSS is going strong! And that the field is getting
> increasingly competitive. As an open source geezer I can only be
> happy, even if it hurts our own application.
> 
> Sorry everyone, and many thanks for the trouble you took getting
> projects written up. Let's not feel discouraged for next year.
> 
> Pj.
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