[BioRuby] Google summer of code...

[Raoul JP Bonnal]

Related to BioSQL idea I was reading this link:

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html#Introduction

Pjotr Prins ha scritto:
> Hilmar Lapp writes:
>
> You may recall my message to the developer lists of several O|B|F  
> projects in February about the idea of O|B|F applying to Google Summer  
> of Code as a mentoring organization [1].
>
> I felt that the response to this was very positive and encouraging.  
> Although late (sorry, been swamped too much), I've now put up the  
> skeleton of an ideas page at
>
> http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_Code_2009
>
> I basically modeled (in fact, largely copied) this page after the  
> NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code ideas pages, which I think  
> worked pretty well. We can completely rework this, though - any  
> feedback and suggestions are very much welcome.
>
> In the meantime, I need all developers to double check the information  
> under 'Contact'. Would the open-bio-l mailing list indeed reach the  
> prospective mentors and other devs? Will be you be fine with students  
> asking for feedback to their applications on the developers (i.e.,  
> this) list? Is there a blessed IRC where at least some of the  
> prospective mentors hang out for students to ask questions during the  
> time they apply?
>
> I also need space for the reference information for all projects that  
> will participate with at least one project idea (I would hope that  
> that's all projects) to be added in the 'Open-Bio projects involved'  
> section.
>
> *****
> Most important of all, if you can volunteer to mentor a project,  
> please post a project idea to the page in the respective section,  
> using the idea template that's there already (copy, paste, and edit).
> *****
>
> The deadline for organization applications is Friday this week, Mar  
> 13, which is very soon. The ideas page is a major factor and component  
> in how Google scores new mentoring organizations - the more we can  
> show the resourcefulness and diversity of our member projects the more  
> competitive I think we'll be. So all those who responded with ideas or  
> willingness to help out as primary or secondary mentores earlier, I  
> need you to think about and put up your idea(s) now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	-hilmar
>
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/ck7tqe
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