[BioSQL-l] Update: call for Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Robert Buels <rbuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As kindly pointed out by Reece Hart, the previous email I sent out calling
> for Google Summer of Code project ideas, had the wrong due date for project
> ideas in it.
>
> I actually want them to all be in place by Friday, March 2, which is this
> coming Friday.
>
> == Instructions for Wiki Editing ==
>
> For each of the OBF projects that wants to do GSoC again this year, please:
>
> a.) Update the list of project ideas on your project's GSoC page (BioPython,
> BioPerl, BioRuby, etc).  Add new ones, remove ones that have already been
> done or no longer relevant, etc.
>
> b.) Update the list of project ideas on the main OBF GSoC page
> (http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code) to match.
>
> c.) Let me know via email that you have done so and it's ready for Google to
> peruse.
>
> == end instructions ==
>
> Again, please have the updates done by this Friday (March 2). The number and
> quality of the project ideas are part of the evaluation process for whether
> OBF is accepted as a Summer of Code organization again this year, so let's
> come up with some good ones.  :-)
>
> Rob

Time is short for Rob's deadline ready for the OBF's evaluation, but are
there any BioSQL ideas for GSoC? Assuming we are accepted again,
we can come up with more ideas later.

The only thing I could think of was full support for the SQLite3 schema
(i.e. updating all the BioSQL perl scripts), but that doesn't seem enough
for a whole summer.

Perhaps it could be combined with work on BioPerl-db itself to support
BioSQL on SQLite? Clearly that would require a BioPerl person to mentor it.

Peter