[GSoC] [Action needed by Feb 18] OBF GSoC time again - we need your project ideas!

[Yo Yehudi]

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Hi folks!

It's GSoC application time again - I'll be leading the OBF GSoC application
and org admin process this year alongside Sarthak Sehgal, Michael Crusoe,
and Kai Blin.

TL;DR: Please send ideas for half-sized projects (1.5 months, not 3 months) *by
Thursday 18 feb*, New mailing list, Code of Conduct.

Longer version:

*New mailing list: please subscribe! *
A few notes for this year: from here on we'll be using Google Groups rather
than the old OBF GSoC lists or direct to private mailing address. This will
make moderation easier.

I'd recommend signing up to these two lists for now - we'll mostly use the
mentors list until (if) we're accepted as an organisation, and the general
list will become more active once (if) we have any students.

https://groups.google.com/g/obf-gsoc-general
https://groups.google.com/g/obf-gsoc-mentors

*No further emails will be sent to the old OBF GSoC mailing lists or to
individual email addresses.*

*Code of Conduct*
The OBF is in the process of drafting a code of conduct, which will soon be
presented to the OBF membership to (hopefully) vote to adopt it. Please
take a few minutes to preview it here:
https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/78/files - while it's not officially
ratified yet, it would be good to run this year's GSoC with this CoC's
intent behind our behaviour.

*Project ideas*
Things are a little different from previous GSoCs. Projects should be 175
hours long - that's about 1.5 months of work compared to the 3 months we're
used to, although students can choose to do this work part-time over the
whole GSoC period or full-time over a shorter period. This also means all
stipends are halved for interns.

*Please add your project ideas to this list by THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY *(using
suggest mode).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPf-fLDmjoVGf7TvbOB6H12pC_s_y_5TUGiKAxre64M/edit?usp=sharing
- you can add ideas after this if needed, but we need as many fully fleshed
ideas as possible already online for the organisation review phase.

These are the project ideas from last year for inspiration:
https://www.open-bio.org/events/gsoc/gsoc-project-ideas/

*We're all pretty tired*

   - Make sure you have 2-3 mentors for every project idea to cover in case
   of something coming up (such as covid related downtime, whether illness,
   caring, or anything else).
   - If you're interested in helping us with org admin duties, we'd love to
   have you on board and are willing to provide you support and mentoring
   while you learn how to do it. Email obf-gsoc-admins at googlegroups.com to
   discuss it.



*Finally - any questions? *
I probably forgot something even though this mail is really long 😆. If you
have any questions please email either the mentor group (
obf-gsoc-mentors at googlegroups.com) or the admin group (
obf-gsoc-admins at googlegroups.com). You can also book a quick chat with me
if that's easier:
https://calendly.com/yo-yehudi-manchester/gsoc-chat?month=2021-02

Yo
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