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

[Hilmar Lapp]

Indeed, thanks Raoul and Francesco for your efforts to pull this off,
and for stepping up in the first place, especially also on short notice.

  -hilmar

On 3/3/15, 3:56 AM, Peter Cock 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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