[Biopython-dev] Fwd: [Open-bio-l] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

In recent years while we've had some nice project ideas,
we've been short of potential mentors. GSoC can be
really fun and rewarding as a mentor, but it is a serious
time commitment.

Anyway, it would be great to have some Biopython GSoC
project students again this year as part of the OBF GSoC
umbrella - see message below.

Thanks,

Peter


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kai Blin <kblin at biosustain.dtu.dk>
Date: Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:04 PM
Subject: [Open-bio-l] Google Summer of Code 2017
To: "open-bio-l at mailman.open-bio.org" <open-bio-l at mailman.open-bio.org>


Dear Open Bioinformatics Foundation community,

It's 2017, and Google is again organizing the Google Summer of Code.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation will be applying again, and we again
are looking for member projects to post project proposals under the OBF
umbrella. Just as last year, we not only accept projects from our "core
projects", but will consider proposals from "related" bioinformatics
projects as well. To illustrate, last year the OBF GSoC students worked
on projects for the ETE toolkit, the Common Workflow Language, the
GeneNetwork genome browser, Bionode, openSNP and antiSMASH.

OBF's GSoC website can be found at http://obf.github.io/GSoC/

If you are interested in mentoring a GSoC student working on your
project this summer, add your project proposals as pull requests to
https://github.com/OBF/GSoC/tree/gh-pages

Please note that a project proposal needs to have two mentors from your
member project willing to support the student.

Poject proposals should look like this:

### Title, a short, clear summary of the project

#### Rationale

A bit of background about the project proposal. Why is this relevant for
your project, what preexisting work does it build on?

#### Approach

A short sketch on how you think it would be possible to implement the
project in three month's worth of time.


#### Languages and skills
a bullet list of

* languages
* skills
* anything else

needed to complete the project

#### Code
Relevant links to your project's source code repositories

#### Difficulty
Try to judge the difficulty here. The scale we have used is "easy",
"medium", "hard".


#### Mentors
Names and contact information for at least two mentors willing to mentor
a student working on this proposal.

Also, as we need to make sure to apply in time, please make sure to send
in your pull requests before Thursday, February 2nd. I apologize for the
short notice, but as usual, real life deadlines happen.

Let me know if you have any further questions about this.

Cheers,
Kai

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Kai Blin                                     kblin at biosustain.dtu.dk
PostDoc / Scientific Software Engineer
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