[GSoC] [Open-bio Board] [OBF-GSoC-Mentors] OBF & GSoC 2015

[Nomi Harris]

Just to echo what others have said: Raoul and Francesco, sorry that it didn’t work out, but it’s certainly no fault of yours. It sounds like Google got a lot of applications and wanted to give some new organizations a chance and skip over good organizations that have done GSoC in the past.
	Nomi

> On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Fields, Christopher J <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Huh.  Funny, I was thinking James Taylor’s group forgetting he’s no longer at Emory.  
> 
> Linux Foundation, NCSA (our other local outfit) also didn’t make it.  Lots of new orgs in our field.  
> 
> Did notice that NumFOCUS made it in …
> 
> -c
> 
>> On Mar 3, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Fields, Christopher J
>> <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>> Just to note that Genome Informatics (GMOD) and The Perl
>>> Foundation also didn’t get in.
>>> 
>> 
>> I noticed Perl was missing, hadn't checked GMOD. Mozilla too.
>> 
>>> Another one that appears to have also been accepted is Biomedical
>>> Informatics at Emory.  Would this be the Galaxy proposal?
>> 
>> No, the Galaxy proposal was also not accepted - but it would not
>> surprise me if the Emory group expands to include one or two
>> Galaxy students:
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/jmchilton/status/572482574989303809
>> @jmchilton: Unfortunate update - our #usegalaxy Google Summer of Code
>> application was rejected. I'm still super proud of the application
>> though.
>> 
>> Peter
> 
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