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

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> 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

I think post away.  I've already tweated this.

chris