[BioRuby] GSoC 2013 is ON

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi everyone,

You may have heard that OBF failed to get into GSoC this year. This is
disappointing for us: it was not for lack of commitment and effort
on our end.

The good news is that our main project ideas on machine learning, RDF
and D3 support have been incorporated into the SciRuby GSoC org. If
you consider participating in GSoC, either as a student or a mentor,
please take a look:

  https://github.com/SciRuby/sciruby/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2013-Ideas

feedback is most welcome! Note: we may still change the project ideas.

Mentors: register as a mentor with SciRuby on

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2013

Pj.

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Game on! GSoC 2013 is ON. I am running with the OBF project
> administration this year for the Google Summer of code (GSoC). 
> First and foremost I want to thank Robert Buels and others for making
> OBF/GSoC a success in the previous three years! This year, Robert, Chris
> Fields and Hilmar Lapp will act as backup administrators.
> 
> The deadline for the OBF application for GSoC2013 as a mentoring
> organisation is Friday March 29! See
> 
>   http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
> 
> Similar to previous years, each Bio* project needs to update and add project
> ideas on the project's individual OBF wiki page and create links from the main
> OBF page at
> 
>   http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> 
> (we will update the main information on that page soon).
> 
> So, for each of the OBF projects that wants to do GSoC again this
> year:
> 
> 1. Update the list of project ideas on your project's GSoC page (BioPython,
>    BioPerl, BioRuby, etc). Add new ones, remove ones that have already been done
>    or no longer relevant, etc. For an example see
> 
>      http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> 
> 2. Update the final list of project ideas on the main OBF GSoC page
>    to match.
> 
>      http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> 
> 3. Register with gsoc at lists.open-bio.org
> 
> 4. Announce it on that list when you are ready :)
> 
> Anyone can submit a project idea! Former GSoC students are especially
> encouraged to contribute ideas to the mailing lists.
> 
> Please have the updates done by Friday March 22nd. The number and quality of
> the project ideas are part of the evaluation process for whether OBF is
> accepted as a Summer of Code organisation again this year, so let's come up
> with some good ones!
> 
> Pj. (Pjotr Prins)
> 
> Important dates: 
> 
>   * March 22nd: Finalise project ideas
>   * March 29th: Deadline OBF mentoring organisation submission to Google
> 
> http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> 
> 
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