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

[Adam Kurkiewicz]

Hi Peter,

I've never done GSOC before, and I'm not sure if I'm reading it right.
My understanding is:

1. A list of proposals is already given.
2. Each proposal needs a declaration of mentorship from at least 2
mentors.

I'd be glad to act as a mentor (especially a secondary mentor, along a
more experienced project member) for a 3 month summer project, if the
proposal was in an area I have an understanding of.

On a separate note, I have a couple of students who have interest in
Bioinformatics and are searching for summer internships. In case they
wanted to apply for GSOC, would they have to write up their own
proposal, or could they apply against an existing proposal? 

Adam

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  Adam Kurkiewicz
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, at 03:06 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
> 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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