[Biopython] [GSoC] Please submit your GSoC 2018 project ideas until Jan 20th.

[Peter Cock]

Dear Biopythoneers,

Do we as a community have any bright ideas for GSoC
project proposals?

http://biopython.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
http://biopython.org/wiki/Active_projects

Do any of our developers (including all our regular contributors)
think they might be able to mentor or co-mentor a student this
summer? It can be enormously rewarding, but does require a
serious regular time commitment. I know most if not all of you
will be busy. I've not volunteered to mentor recently, and now
with a small child at home this year is not going to be any easier.

IIRC, the only GSoC ideas put forward last year featuring
Biopython were from Kai Blin, for the internals of his tool
antiSMASH.

We have had ideas in the past for things like revamping
GenomeDiagram, or moving our BioSQL wrapper over
to SQLAlchemy.

Peter

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Kai Blin <kblin at biosustain.dtu.dk> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> (cross-posting to a number of OBF lists, please keep replies to the
> gsoc@ list).
>
> As you will have heard, the GSoC mentoring org applications are open
> right now (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/).
>
> I will submit the OBF application on Jan 21st, and need your help to
> make our project ideas page worth accepting.
>
> As in the last years, please submit a pull request to https://github.co
> m/OBF/GSoC/blob/gh-pages/00_ideas.md in order to get your ideas added.
>
> I would be very happy to see some proposals from the "core" projects
> that OBF hosts.
>
> Your ideal project idea already has 2+ people who would be interested
> in mentoring a student working on the proposal assigned. :)
>
> Let me know if you have any questions regarding project ideas or GSoC
> in general.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
>
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