[GSoC] [Biopython] OBF GSoC students weekly progress reports

[Robert Buels]

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Rob


On 04/24/2012 03:01 PM, Wibowo Arindrarto wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 19:55, Peter Cock<p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Lenna Peterson<arklenna at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm very excited to be participating in GSoC '12 with Biopython!
>>>
>>> My development blog is on tumblr, which I chose primarily because it
>>> supports markdown syntax, which I'm used to from GitHub.
>>>
>>> Here's my gsoc12 tag: http://arklenna.tumblr.com/tagged/gsoc2012
>>>
>>> However, Tumblr doesn't allow post comments. Will I need to switch to a
>>> blog platform that allows comments?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Lenna
>>
>> Hi Lenna,
>>
>> Great - you've got a blog already you're also the first student to reply :)
>>
>> Blog comments could be nice, but personally in your shoes I'd
>> direct any discussion to the biopython(-dev) mailing list. e.g.
>>
>> 1. Post weekly update blog, get blog post URL
>> 2. Send email with summary, including blog post URL
>> 3. Goto mailing list archive, get archived email URL
>> 4. Update blog post to link to email (and thus any thread from it,
>> at least for that month).
>>
>> A little cumbersome, but it would save you moving your blog?
>>
>> I'd actually be happier with most discussion on the biopython-dev
>> list rather than blog comments, or even github (which will still be
>> useful for things like code reviews).
>>
>> This may be different for the other projects - I know BioRuby
>> uses IRC much more for example, but even there they've tried
>> to post archives of important IRC discussions to their mailing
>> list too.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Peter
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Wibowo Arindrarto here, but you can just call me Bow for short :). I'm
> very excited to be accepted into GSoC with OBF as well!
>
> I will be blogging on my site: http://bow.web.id/blog, and I've
> actually made my inaugural GSoC post just a few hours after I heard
> the news, here:
> http://bow.web.id/blog/2012/04/google-summer-of-code-is-on/. I'll be
> posting all GSoC related post under the `gsoc` tag, accessible through
> this URL: http://bow.web.id/blog/tag/gsoc/. To follow Peter's
> suggestion, I'll post my weekly progress in this mailing list for
> everyone to see, too.
>
> cheers,
> Bow
>
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