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

Tue Mar 3 13:35:36 UTC 2015

Thanks - live now:

http://news.open-bio.org/news/2015/03/sadly-obf-not-accepted-for-gsoc-2015/

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Peter

On Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Raoul J P Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:

> I just added on piece from my previous email, I think it is important to
> let them know that we are here for them.
>
>
> On 3/3/15 12:26 PM, Peter Cock 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.
>
> Other organizations with bioinformatics as keyword are Ruby Science
> Foundation [1],
> Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University [2],
> OncoBlocks[3],
> University of Nebraska - Helikar Lab [4]. Other organizations related to
> sciences are ASCEND [5] , BRL-CAD [6], Debian Project [7] , HPCC Systems®
> [8] , International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility [9] , lmonade:
> scientific software distribution [10] , OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation [11], The Concord Consortium [12], The Visualization Toolkit
> [13]. Languages: Python [14], Scala [15], Apache Foundation [16].
> Last but not least : Global Alliance for Genomics & Health [17]
>
> 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.
>
>
> [1]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/sciruby,
> https://github.com/SciRuby/sciruby/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2015-Ideas
> [2]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/stonybrookbmi,
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zJGT5AwnKqx8mJLmoeRnM_iZkEk-
> i6Ky_M4b3Z38w6o/edit
> [3]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/oncoblocks,
> http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~cerami/gsoc.html
> [4]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/helikarlab,
> http://helikarlab.org/GSoC.html
>
> [5]http://ascend4.org/Student_projects
> [6]http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas
> [7]https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/Projects
> [8]
> https://wiki.hpccsystems.com/display/hpcc/HPCC+Systems+
> GSoC+2015+Ideas+List
> [9]https://www.incf.org/gsoc/2015/proposals
> [10]http://wiki.lmona.de/get_involved/gsoc
> [11]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015_Ideas
> [12]http://concord.org/GSoC
> [13]http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/GSoC_2015
>
> [14]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/python
> [15]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/scalateam
> [16]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
>
> [17]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/ga4gh,
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHPDTzD4Z6xVoxN0Q1F8yEPclSri-
> JA1vLvMTrLYUi8/edit
>
>
>
>  <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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