[Biojava-l] [GSoC] Google Summer of Code 2014

[Nicolas Rodriguez]

On 03/04/2014 09:26 AM, Eric Talevich wrote:
> Hi Matte,
>
> Thanks for your interest. It sounds like you have a handle on what's
> required for GSoC already. Once you've evaluated the project ideas that
> interest you (or come with an idea of your own), the core of your GSoC
> application will be a project timeline -- ideally, a week-by-week timeline
> of coding activities, goals, deliverables and potential problems or
> outstanding questions you perceive. If you make this a public spreadsheet
> on Google Docs or similar and share it with us, we can give you early
> feedback on it. Also, this would be a good time to try fetching the JSBML
> and BioJava source trees and building them yourself, if you haven't already.

I would add that to understand and prepare for this project
it would be important to have a look at the current specification
proposal for the multi package.

see http://goo.gl/7aIXi0


> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matte Bailey <matteabailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Matte Bailey, and I'm a third year computer science student at
>> Western Washington University. I am also a biology minor, and am very
>> interested in bioinformatics and hope to someday have a career in the
>> field. For the past few months I have been searching for something I could
>> do over the summer related to bioinformatics, and I recently discovered the
>> Open Bioinformatics Foundation and your Google Summer of Code
>> opportunities. This is exactly what I have been looking for, and I would be
>> thrilled if I could be one of the students to work on a project this summer.
>>
>> I've read through all of the instructions about the application process
>> and the current project ideas, and am now trying to figure out what kind of
>> project I would be best suited for. I have experience with quite a few
>> programming languages, but the BioJava projects seem to best fit my skills
>> and level of experience. As I do not at this point have any experience with
>> JSBML, I'm not exactly sure which of these projects I should be pursuing,
>> although they all see interesting to me. The "Implement support for the
>> SBML Multistate/Multicomponent Species package" project is probably the
>> most attractive to me at this point due to the fact that it relates to
>> biochemistry, which is an interest of mine. I am very open to working on
>> any project though!
>>
>> Is there anything else I can do at this time to improve my chances of
>> being selected? The largest part of the application seems to be putting
>> together a comprehensive project plan, and I intend to begin working on
>> that as soon as I figure out which project I am pursuing.
>>
>> Thanks for you help,
>> Matte
>>
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