[GSoC] GSOC OBF & GMOD

[Amelia Ireland]

Perhaps the best thing would be if some OBF folks had a look at the
proposals that the Genome Informatics group have put together and assessed
which would be most amenable to OBF-ification? I think that is a better
approach than trying to coerce the ideas that Robin and I picked into being
OBF projects.

Here is the list:

http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC

Thanks,
Amelia.



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Fields, Christopher J <
cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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




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Amelia Ireland
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Generic Model Organism Database project
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