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

[Peter Cock]

I've tweaked it to add a link to the accepted organisations list:
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> <end>
>
> 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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