[GSoC] OBF accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2014

[Pjotr Prins]

Phylosoc did not get in, as far as I can tell. JRuby did also not make
it.

Pj.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:41:28AM +0100, Raoul Bonnal wrote:
> Dear Eric and All,
> do we know if there are  bioinformatic related org which have not been accepted ?
> I think that would be fair for them to offer a place where host their projects under obf, going in the direction of cross projects.
> Obviously we must balance the number of projects from these hosted orbs, we can ask them if they are interested and in case propose a curated selection of projects to limit the number of hosted projects. I think that Google like this kind of kindness and this could be chance to show the role of OBF.
> 
> So if you are aware of some Org and possibly specific projects that need to be hosted, please let us know.
> 
> Raoul  
> 
> 
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Eric Talevich <eric.talevich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Good news: Google has accepted OBF as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014! See Google's announcement of the accepted orgs, and what this means:
> > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/02/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html
> > 
> > Our page on the official GSoC site:
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/obf
> > 
> > What's next? Between March 10 and 21, students can apply to work with OBF for the summer. Until then, let's keep spreading the word about our GSoC participation this year and encourage promising students to get involved.
> > 
> > We can also continue to add project ideas and refine the existing ones on the OBF wiki:
> > http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Eric & Raoul
> 
> 
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