[BioRuby] Fw: [Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Bioperl-l] Google Summer of Code is *ON* for OBF projects!

[Naohisa GOTO]

Hi Kazuhiro,

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:20:52 +0900
Kazuhiro Hayashi <k.hayashi.info at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all
> 
> My name is Kazuhiro Hayashi.
> I'm a 1st-year master's degree student at Depertment of Computational
> Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of
> Tokyo.
> 
> The reason why I sent this mail is to ask you some questions about
> Google Summer of Code 2010.
> 
> I'm interested in Google Summer of Code 2010, Especially, the projects
> about BioRuby.
> At the moment, I will apply "Ruby 1.9.2 support of BioRuby and I'd
> like to contribute BioRuby community through Google Summer of Code
> 2010.
> So, I have three questions.
> Could you answer them?
>
> One is about differences between Ruby 1.8.x and 1.9.2
> OBF's GSoC page says that the participant needs to know Ruby 1.9.2.
> Until now, I've used only Ruby 1.8.7 and never used Ruby 1.9.2.
> Honestly, I hardly know differences between Ruby 1.8.x and Ruby 1.9.2.
> Can I join this project?

Yes.
You will need to study about them during the project, but not now.
I've modified the "needed skills" in the project wiki page
to clarify the point.

> Another is how many programs in BioRuby run on Ruby 1.9.2.
> Could you tell me weather you have already known it or not (and how to know it)?

I don't know much. Some programs worked, but some didn't.

> The other is implementation of the unit tests.
> Does this mean that the participant needs to implement unit tests for
> all codes which haven't had them yet.

Yes or no, depends on planning. One idea is to implement
almost all with rough coding, and to improve them after that.
I also think that classes and modules that strongly depend
on external program or web service can be skipped.

> Currently, These are all my questions about GSoC 2010.
> 
> If you have some advice for the applicants, please send a reply to
> this mailing list.
> 
> Thank you very much for reading my broken English. :-)
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 
> 2010/3/19 Naohisa GOTO <ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp>:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:32 -0500
> > From: Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu>
> > To: open-bio-l at lists.open-bio.org
> > Subject: [Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Bioperl-l] Google Summer of Code is *ON* for OBF projects!
> >
> >
> > (forwarding to the Open-Bio list, as the original post is still clearing the OBF mail filters)
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Great news: Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this summer's Google Summer of Code!
> >
> > GSoC is a Google-sponsored student internship program for open-source projects, open to students from around the world (not just US residents).   Students are paid a $5000 USD stipend to work as a developer on an open-source project for the summer. For more on GSoC, see GSoC 2010 FAQ at http://tinyurl.com/yzemdfo
> >
> > Student applications are due April 9, 2010 at 19:00 UTC.  Students who are interested in participating should look at the OBF's GSoC page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code, which lists project ideas, and who to contact about applying.
> >
> > For current developers on OBF projects, please consider volunteering to be a mentor if you have not already, and contribute project ideas.  Just list your name and project ideas on OBF wiki and on the relevant project's GSoC wiki page.
> >
> > Thanks to all who helped make OBF's application to GSoC a success, and let's have a great, productive summer of code!
> >
> > Rob Buels
> > OBF GSoC 2010 Administrator
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> -- 
> 林和弘
> Kazuhiro Hayashi
> Department of Computational Biology,  The University of Tokyo
> email: k_hayashi at cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
> tel: 04-7136-3988
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Naohisa Goto
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