[BioRuby] OBF GSoC students weekly progress reports

[Marjan Povolni]

Hi Peter,

Another excited GSoC student here :)

I think the idea with a blog for status updates a great idea, I would have
done it probably even if it wasn't a requirement. I didn't have a blog
before, so I created one at tumblr, and it should be possible for the
visitors to leave comments too. But I do agree with you that the ML is a
better place for discussions about our GSoC projects. Here is a link to my
new blog:

http://blog.mpthecoder.com/

GSoC related posts will be tagged with #gsoc (
http://blog.mpthecoder.com/tagged/gsoc).

@Lenna
Tumblr lets you use your Disqus account if you want to enable comments on
your tumblr blog. However, not all themes support it. See the first q&a
here for more info:

http://www.tumblr.com/help

It took me about 2 minutes to create an account on Disqus and link it to my
blog.

--
Marjan


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> First, to echo Rob, congratulations to our selected students:
> http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/04/students-selected-for-gsoc/
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/gsoc/2012/000049.html
>
> Weekly Progress Reports:
>
> To encourage community bonding and awareness of what the
> GSoC 2012 students are doing, this year the OBF is being much
> clearer about our progress report expectations.
>
> We would like every student to setup a blog for the GSoC project
> (or a category/tag on your existing blog) which you will use to
> summarize your progress every week, as well as longer posts
> at the half way evaluation, and at the end of the summer.
>
> In addition, after publishing each blog post, we expect you to
> email the URL and the text of the blog (or if important images
> or formatting would be lost, at least a short summary) to the
> host project's mailing list(s) (check with your mentors if the
> project has more than one) AND the gsoc at open-bio.org
> mailing list.
>
> You will be writing under your own name, but with a clear
> association with your mentors, the OBF and its projects, so
> please take this seriously and be professional. Remember
> this will become part of your online presence, and potentially
> looked at by future employers and colleagues.
>
> Please talk to your mentors about this during the "community
> bonding" stage of the GSoC code (i.e. the next few weeks
> before you actually start).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter
>
> (On behalf of the OBF GSoC mentors and projects)
>
> Note: As per Rob's earlier email, could both students and mentors
> please ensure you have subscribed to the public OBF GSoC email
> list at http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc (I have BCC'd
> you on this email just in case you haven't done this yet). Thanks!
>