[GSoC] [GSoC2012] BioRuby

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi Saket, 

Welcome! 

It would be good if you also introduce yourself to the BioRuby ML, and
post your ideas. We are working on the website (should I say
web 'experience'), and I like what you propose. Also check out the ML
archive of the last months, you'll find a lot of information.

Pj.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:10:51PM +0530, Saket Choudhary wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I am Saket Choudhary, a third year undergraduate student at IIT Bombay,
> India.
> 
> Ruby has been my first love for programming. My last project[internship]
> was at SlideShare <http://www.slideshare.net>, one of the biggest Ruby on
> Rails website in the world. I had developed the Admin interface for
> SlideShare which could enable suspending users, reconversion/deletion of
> SlideShows , and user deletion/suspension.
> 
> My hack at Yahoo! Open Hack India -2011 qualified among the Top 50 hacks ,
> I built a Sinatra app for fetching a defined file from a Dropbox account
> and sending it to a specified email address , just on a SMS.[
> https://github.com/saketkc/dropbox_on_sms]
> 
> I went through the GSoC idea page and "Adding social networking
> functionality to BioRuby.org", is of my special interest. I have an
> experience working on the Rails platform. My plans for making the website
> more "Social" is as follows:
> 
> 1. Provide an online 'Scratchpad' for Ruby/BioRuby enthusiasts that not
> only allows them to run their codes online but also provides them a
> facility to store it online in the form of an archive so that they an acess
> it later.
> 
> 2. Include sharing facility on "Scratchpad" so  that one user can share his
> code online with other users/community and get feedback/comments. On the
> lines of "Sage <http://www.sagenb.org/>" notebooks.
> 
> 3. Develop an Online Board on the lines of "Quora <https://www.quora.com>"
> Boards  so that users can pin certain codes/algorithms on to their own
> boards for their reference this would reduce the overhead of searching for
> a particular algorithm again and again .
> 
> Let me know you views on these ideas. I would send a mockup of the same
> incase these ideas seem feasible to you.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  Saket Choudhary
> IIT Bombay
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