[GSoC] GSoC 2013 is ON

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at drycafe.net
Tue Apr 9 07:47:22 EDT 2013 

Wasn't the number of orgs last year around 180? That would mean that the total number of accepted orgs is almost unchanged. However, the announcement on the Google blog says that they accepted more than 40 new projects. Since the number of accepted orgs for sure didn't rise, this must mean that around 40 projects turned over, or almost 1 in every 4.

-hilmar

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On Apr 8, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Jim Procter <jprocter at compbio.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> This does suck, but as you said, Pjotr - it suggests competition for resources from FLOSS philanthropists is now very fierce - which is a Good Thing, but also a less good thing if writing GSoC org applications become as much work as grant applications, with the same low acceptance rate.
> 
> In the case of OBF I'm not quite sure why it didn't make the cut, so a post-mortem might be informative. For this year, though - it is definitely worth looking at bio/sci related GSoC orgs that did make the cut to see if an OBF project might fit there, or even applying for alternate sources of internship funding. Does anyone feel like starting a page to organise this kind of information on the OBF wiki ?
> 
> I did a quick analysis of the list in Melange and a random survey of tweets, and it looks like around 20 of the 121 orgs listed as of 3am UTC are science related. As to the ones that didn't make it - there are some surprises, such as Drupal, VLC, and RockPlayer - but I couldn't get a definite list together. At least one comment suggested the number of accepted orgs is less this year - I guess we'll see something in the announcements later on... since the bottom line will be whether the total number of student slots is less.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> On Tue Apr  9 06:58:45 2013, John Woods wrote:
>> (+John Prince, +Carlos Agarie)
>> 
>> Hey Pjotr,
>> 
>> First of all, I'm so sorry to hear you all didn't get it. I've learned
>> so much about running our fellowship programs from how well you all
>> manage your GSOC students.
>> 
>> I just learned that SciRuby did get accepted, which was quite honestly
>> a tiny bit surprising for me (we've definitely been rejected before).
>> 
>> Would you all be willing to get involved with our Summer of Code
>> efforts? We're a bit short on mentors, and I think there's room for us
>> to adopt some of your more general-science-y projects.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2010 at thebird.nl
>> <mailto:pjotr2010 at thebird.nl>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Sadly, our application got rejected by GSoC this year. I am not sure
>>    what the reason was, but I am convinced our application was similar to
>>    that of other years. Maybe the project ideas could have been better
>>    presented. I am not sure at this stage. I'll make a list of successful
>>    projects to see if we can digest some truths.
>> 
>>    The upside is that FOSS is going strong! And that the field is getting
>>    increasingly competitive. As an open source geezer I can only be
>>    happy, even if it hurts our own application.
>> 
>>    Sorry everyone, and many thanks for the trouble you took getting
>>    projects written up. Let's not feel discouraged for next year.
>> 
>>    Pj.
>> 
>>    On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:19:32PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>>    > Heads up! One more week to go for project ideas! Please update
>>    >
>>    > https://github.com/OBF/GSoC/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2013
>>    >
>>    > with the latest links. And maybe a wakeup call to your lists?
>>    >
>>    > If you are not on the Internet you don't exist. If you are not
>>    making
>>    > use of GSoC, you might as well be dead ;).
>>    >
>>    > Kidding. But, the more ideas, the better.
>>    >
>>    > Pj.
>>    >
>>    > * March 22nd: Finalise project ideas
>>    > * March 29th: Deadline OBF mentoring organisation submission to
>>    Google
>>    >
>>    > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>>    > > Dear project leaders.
>>    > >
>>    > > I am sending below announcement to you, to have it forwarded
>>    by you to
>>    > > your mailing lists. Please do so. Also pass this message on to
>>    anyone
>>    > > who might be in some way interested in the OBF/GSoC initiative. To
>>    > > participate, start by signing up to the soc mailing list at
>>    > > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc
>>    > >
>>    > > Spread the word!
>>    > >
>>    > > ~~~
>>    > >
>>    > > 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
>>    <mailto: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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