[GSoC] generative biolearn project, further steps

[Michael Crusoe]

Would this be a new software project?

--
Michael R. Crusoe

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 21:27 Anton Kulaga <antonkulaga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Michael and Sarthak,
>
> We recently got a student with extremely high expertise (several papers in
> good journals) in structural bioinformatics. We had a call with her, and
> she suggested a good idea that has nothing to do with generative biolearn
> project (GSOC project we announced on OBF website), but goes very well with
> one of our current projects (the project devoted to cross-species
> comparisons) by complementing it from structural dimension, it may also
> produce quite useful OSS code.
> I wonder if we need to list the cross-species direction in the OBF
> project_ideas google docs or it is just enough for her to apply with her
> idea despite its unrelatedness to Generative biolearn project?
> She also asked me to ask OBF admins if there can be any issues that she
> works as a research assistant in the same institute (but totally different
> lab and no previous collaboration with mentors) as one of the mentors
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Anton Kulaga
>
> Bioinformatician at Computational Biology of Aging Group
> 296 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania, 060031
> http://aging-research.group
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 12:54, Michael Crusoe <michael.crusoe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 3:41 PM Anton Kulaga <antonkulaga at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much for accepting my project idea suggestion, I am
>>> already getting messages/emails from students.
>>>
>>
>> You are very welcome, and I'm glad to hear about the quick response!
>>
>>
>>> I discovered (some of the students complained) that I forgot to put my
>>> contact email to the project description, could you please update the
>>> project description? (I put emails as suggestions in your google doc).
>>>
>>
>> I don't have permission to update the website, but I believe Sarthak does.
>>
>>
>>> Also, could you please clarify the further steps in GSOC?
>>>
>>
>> Here's the GSoC 2020 timeline
>> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>>
>>
>>> From what I understood:
>>> * right now we (as mentors) talk with students, interview them and best
>>> of the students write detailed applications of what they do in our projects
>>>
>>
>> Most importantly, the students successfully submit their proposals to
>> Google.
>>
>>
>>> * OBF requests slots (how many students will get funded) and OBF admins
>>> make final decisions who of the students will get funded
>>>
>>
>> First the potential mentors and the admins review all the OBF student
>> applications and assign them scores in a spreadsheet. Then we collectively
>> decided who we approve (with the consent of their potential mentors) and
>> convert that into a number of slots to request from Google.
>>
>> Once Google grants us a number of slots it is then a race to select
>> students (who may also have proposals with other organizations). If a
>> student is not available we are free to use that slot for another proposal,
>> if agreed by the future mentors and the OBF GSoC admins.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Do I get it right? I wonder how many slots can the project have, what
>>> are the limitations? What is the process of the final selection of students
>>> by OBF Admins, how is it done?
>>>
>>
>> There is no formal maximum to the number of slots, but we will be
>> penalized in the future based upon the performance of our students, and if
>> we request more slots than we can fill.
>>
>> Final selection is usually easy and straight forward: we assign the slots
>> to the previously agreed upon students as long as their potential mentors
>> are still in agreement.
>>
>>
>>> Also, I noticed that you have "Feel free to propose your own entirely
>>> new idea." , in such case can we write in the end of our project
>>> description that we will be grateful for any bioinformatic/ML project ideas
>>> ( even not directly connected with generative biolearn) that will be
>>> beneficial for biology of aging research?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, please suggest that text in the Google doc.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Anton Kulaga
>>>
>>> Bioinformatician at Computational Biology of Aging Group
>>> 296 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania, 060031
>>> http://aging-research.group
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael R. Crusoe
>>
>
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