[Biojava-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Richard Holland]

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The Phyloinformatics Hackathon group, which aims to foster collaboration
among the Bio* toolkit developers (see http://phyloinformatics.net/ ),
is preparing to apply for the Google Summer of Code program.

The page for collecting ideas etc is at

http://phyloinformatics.net/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2007

This is mostly a stub right now but will rapidly (have to) be fleshed
out over the next couple of days (the deadline for application is March
9). Please feel free to add ideas that you have directly (wiki
registration is open), or email them to Hilmar Lapp (hlapp at duke dot
edu) who is managing the program.

If we are accepted, we'll (hopefully) have students over the summer,
some of which will possibly work on BioPerl and BioJava-related
projects. These may be newcomers to BioJava, newcomers to distributed
OSS development, or even programming newbies ... Given the helping hand
that this community has readily extended to newbies in the past, I'm
hoping that you'll help us help them overcome the initial barriers, too.
Also, this offers us a chance to get work done on BioJava and find
future contributors with the financial and logistic help of Google.

If anyone is willing to go beyond that and would be willing to help out
as a mentor (or back-up mentor), that'd be great; just send me an email.

cheers,
Richard
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