[GSoC] Google Summer of Code 2014

[Eric Talevich]

Hi Matte,

Thanks for your interest. It sounds like you have a handle on what's
required for GSoC already. Once you've evaluated the project ideas that
interest you (or come with an idea of your own), the core of your GSoC
application will be a project timeline -- ideally, a week-by-week timeline
of coding activities, goals, deliverables and potential problems or
outstanding questions you perceive. If you make this a public spreadsheet
on Google Docs or similar and share it with us, we can give you early
feedback on it. Also, this would be a good time to try fetching the JSBML
and BioJava source trees and building them yourself, if you haven't already.

Cheers,
Eric


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matte Bailey <matteabailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Matte Bailey, and I'm a third year computer science student at
> Western Washington University. I am also a biology minor, and am very
> interested in bioinformatics and hope to someday have a career in the
> field. For the past few months I have been searching for something I could
> do over the summer related to bioinformatics, and I recently discovered the
> Open Bioinformatics Foundation and your Google Summer of Code
> opportunities. This is exactly what I have been looking for, and I would be
> thrilled if I could be one of the students to work on a project this summer.
>
> I've read through all of the instructions about the application process
> and the current project ideas, and am now trying to figure out what kind of
> project I would be best suited for. I have experience with quite a few
> programming languages, but the BioJava projects seem to best fit my skills
> and level of experience. As I do not at this point have any experience with
> JSBML, I'm not exactly sure which of these projects I should be pursuing,
> although they all see interesting to me. The "Implement support for the
> SBML Multistate/Multicomponent Species package" project is probably the
> most attractive to me at this point due to the fact that it relates to
> biochemistry, which is an interest of mine. I am very open to working on
> any project though!
>
> Is there anything else I can do at this time to improve my chances of
> being selected? The largest part of the application seems to be putting
> together a comprehensive project plan, and I intend to begin working on
> that as soon as I figure out which project I am pursuing.
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Matte
>