[GSoC] [OBF-GSoC-Mentors] OBF & GSoC 2015

Tue Mar 3 11:26:31 UTC 2015

I've written this and it is ready to publish - any comments/changes
ASAP please as we have several keen students waiting to hear about
this.

Title: Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015

<start>
Last year's Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF
with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects.
We applied again this year to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately
this year were not accepted.

Google's program is enormously popular, and over-subscribed, meaning
Google has had to rotate organisation membership. The OBF is grateful
to have been accepted in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. For GSoC 2015 any
participation will be down to individual projects to find other
willing umbrella organisations. For example, a Biopython project was
included under NESCent for GSoC 2013.

On behalf of the OBF, we would like to thank our volunteer GSoC
Adminstrators, Raoul Bonnal and Francesco Strozzi, for organising our
application - and all our potential mentors accross the Bio* projects
who put forward potential project suggestions.
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I would also tweet this, and post on the Biopython list about our next steps.

Thanks,

Peter

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Raoul, and everyone else who contributed.
>
> This has happened to the OBF before, and we never really understood
> why. So don't feel bad for your efforts - we gave it a good shot. Thank
> you all.
>
> We should post an announcement on the OBF news blog, and email to
> all the project lists too? Could you write something? I can post it on the
> blog or make an account there (I don't think you have one yet).
>
> http://news.open-bio.org/news/wp-admin/
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Raoul J P Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> we got the formal communication that Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)
>> has not been accepted for the Google Summer of Code 2015.
>>
>> We can still participate migrating some of our projects to other
>> organizations, I encourage every mentor to explore the list of accepted
>> organizations [1] and directly contact them. Please let us know and we'll
>> try to help if possible.
>> We are in touch with a friend organization so we'll try to migrate some
>> project to Ruby Science Foundation [2].
>> Other organizations with bioinformatics as keyword are Department of
>> Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University [3], OncoBlocks[4],
>> University of Nebraska - Helikar Lab [5]. Other organizations related to
>> sciences are ASCEND [6] , BRL-CAD [7], Debian Project [8] , HPCC Systems®
>> [9] , International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility [10] , lmonade:
>> scientific software distribution [11] , OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial
>> Foundation [12], The Concord Consortium [13], The Visualization Toolkit
>> [14]. Languages: Python [15], Scala [16], Apache Foundation [17].
>> Last but not least : Global Alliance for Genomics & Health [18]
>>
>>
>> It is always complicated to understand why an organization has not been
>> accepted and there are many reasons, many orgs are applying every year and
>> they tend to introduce fresh air. There are no specific comments from
>> Google. We'll dissect every aspect and activities to better understand and
>> improve our presence for the next year.
>>
>> In the mean time, find an host org for our projects and participate to GSoC
>> 2015.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015
>>
>> [2] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/sciruby,
>> https://github.com/SciRuby/sciruby/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2015-Ideas
>> [3] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/stonybrookbmi,
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zJGT5AwnKqx8mJLmoeRnM_iZkEk-i6Ky_M4b3Z38w6o/edit
>> [4] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/oncoblocks,
>> http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~cerami/gsoc.html
>> [5] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/helikarlab,
>> http://helikarlab.org/GSoC.html
>>
>> [6] http://ascend4.org/Student_projects
>> [7] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas
>> [8] https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/Projects
>> [9]
>> https://wiki.hpccsystems.com/display/hpcc/HPCC+Systems+GSoC+2015+Ideas+List
>> [10] https://www.incf.org/gsoc/2015/proposals
>> [11] http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc
>> [12] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015_Ideas
>> [13] http://concord.org/GSoC
>> [14] http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/GSoC_2015
>>
>> [15] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/python
>> [16] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/scalateam
>> [17] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
>>
>> [18] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/ga4gh,
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHPDTzD4Z6xVoxN0Q1F8yEPclSri-JA1vLvMTrLYUi8/edit
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ra & Fra
>>
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