[GSoC] GSOC OBF & GMOD

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2014 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:46:01PM +0000, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
>> Ah yes, but then I believe Amelia?s point is whether this is something that the Biojavascript folks (who aren?t officially one of the OBF Bio* but have been accepted as their own GSoC org) might be a better fit.  Which very well could be ?yes? depending on their view of things.  Maybe someone can reach out to them and ask?
> 
> If you read the BioJS paper, you'll see that they are mostly working
> on visualisation components for the browser.
> 
> We are talking Client-server here - different ball game. If we were to
> start a serious project in Javascript we should talk about that. We
> should not fear mixing programming languages. We have gotten beyond
> that point by now. I currently write code in Ruby, D, Python and
> Javascript. Apparently LISP I can't get around either. I don't think I
> am that special. Main thing is to find mentors that take an active
> interest in maintaining such a code base. Without a mentor we won't
> get anywhere.
> 
> Javascript + Nodejs makes a pretty enticing server environment, these
> days. And more and more students are learning Javascript before Perl
> or Python. Now if there is an eager mentor...
> 
> Pj.

I’m not disagreeing, actually.  I just want to make sure these go to the right place, whether it be OBF or elsewhere.


chris