[open-science] Google Summer of Code 2014 options?

Tue Mar 4 21:44:04 UTC 2014

Thanks Egon,
Can you outline precisely what we are proposing?
* mentoring organisations have already been accepted, yes? so we can't do
anything.
* we are proposing projects to them?
* we are identifying students?

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Bastian Greshake
<bgreshake at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
> I think doing a blogpost is a great idea to get the word out for all the
> different projects.
>
> For the more language specific bioinformatics projects there is the Open
> Bioinformatics Foundation which is participating with BioPython, BioPerl,
> BioJava, BioSQL and BioHaskell [0] and the BioJS project is also
> participating [1].
>
> Cheers,
> Bastian
>
> [0] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> [1] https://rostlab.org/services/biojs/gsoc.html
>
> On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:50 , Egon Willighagen wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > another year, another Google Summer of Code. And again it is possible
> > to work on Open Source tools in the area of chemistry.
> >
> > Below are a few things that I have spotted. What else is out there?
> >
> > * NRNB mentoring organization [0]
> > - Cytoscape has a chemical structure viz plugin based on the CDK that
> > needs updating
> > - PathVisio has a chemical structure viz plugin based on the CDK that
> > needs updating
> > - There is a project idea to integrate Cytoscape into Bioclipse
> > - There is a project idea to integrate PathVisio into Bioclipse
> > * VTK mentoring organization [1]
> > - various chemistry related ideas
> > * ScaffoldHunter (GPLv3) [2]
> > - no specific ideas, but based on the CDK, and could use updating to CDK
> 1.5
> >
> > The above list is pretty much chemistry oriented, but there are many
> > other scientific domains represented among the 190 mentoring
> > organizations too.
> >
> > Maybe we can also have a blog post on the OKFN network about this?
> >
> > Timing is tight... there is one week left for students to discuss
> > project ideas and start working on applications (there will be
> > ranking, and the position are awarded to the best candidates...) as
> > the submission deadline is March 21. See
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
> >
> > Egon
> >
> > 0.http://nrnb.org/gsoc/index.html#ideas-tab
> > 1.http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/GSoC
> > 2.http://scaffoldhunter.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=project_ideas
> >
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