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

Tue Mar 3 13:45:22 UTC 2015

Just to note that Genome Informatics (GMOD) and The Perl Foundation also didn’t get in. 

Another one that appears to have also been accepted is Biomedical Informatics at Emory.  Would this be the Galaxy proposal?

chris

> On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:56 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
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Gsoc-mentors mailing list
>> Gsoc-mentors at mailman.open-bio.org
>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc-mentors
> 
> _______________________________________________
> GSoC mailing list
> GSoC at mailman.open-bio.org
> http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc