[GSoC] [Open-bio-l] Google Summer of Code is *ON* for OBF projects!

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Robert Buels <rbuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Great news: Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics
> Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this
> summer's Google Summer of Code!
>
> GSoC is a Google-sponsored student internship program for open-source
> projects, open to students from around the world (not just US
> residents).   Students are paid a $5000 USD stipend to work as a
> developer on an open-source project for the summer. For more on GSoC,
> see GSoC 2012 FAQ at http://goo.gl/kNv48
>
> Student applications are due April 6, 2012 at 19:00 UTC.  Students who
> are interested in participating should look at the OBF's GSoC page at
> http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code, which lists project
> ideas, and whom to contact about applying.
>
> For current developers on OBF projects, please consider volunteering to
> be a mentor if you have not already, and contribute project ideas.  Just
> list your name and project ideas on OBF wiki and on the relevant
> project's GSoC wiki page.
>
> Thanks to all who helped make OBF's application to GSoC a success, and
> let's have a great, productive summer of code!
>
> Rob Buels
> OBF GSoC 2012 Administrator

Excellent news - well done Rob et al.

Would you like me to post this to the news blog, or can you?
http://news.open-bio.org/news/

Thanks,

Peter