Hi All, The Open Bioinformatics foundation as an umbrella organisation for BioJava has been accepted to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code. See the announcement message below.
This means we will again be able to offer mentoring through BioJava this year. Accepted students will get a stipend of 5,000$ from Google. Participation is possible from most countries in the world, as long as you are eligible to work in the country in which you'll reside throughout the duration of the program. If you are interested in working on a BioJava related project, now is the time to start preparing and discussing your proposals. For the last two years we had many applications for the projects proposed by mentors. If you want to distinguish your application I recommend to propose your own project. Don't forget to discuss any proposal with us before you submit them. We will try to provide feedback and match you with a suitable Mentor. Also see http://biojava.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code and Google's FAQs: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs The student application deadline is April 6th. Google will announce which proposals got accepted on April 23rd. Andreas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Buels <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM Subject: [Open-bio-l] Google Summer of Code is *ON* for OBF projects! To: Open-Bio List <[email protected]> Hi all, Great news: Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this summer's Google Summer of Code! GSoC is a Google-sponsored student internship program for open-source projects, open to students from around the world (not just US residents). Students are paid a $5000 USD stipend to work as a developer on an open-source project for the summer. For more on GSoC, see GSoC 2012 FAQ at http://goo.gl/kNv48 Student applications are due April 6, 2012 at 19:00 UTC. Students who are interested in participating should look at the OBF's GSoC page at http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code, which lists project ideas, and whom to contact about applying. For current developers on OBF projects, please consider volunteering to be a mentor if you have not already, and contribute project ideas. Just list your name and project ideas on OBF wiki and on the relevant project's GSoC wiki page. Thanks to all who helped make OBF's application to GSoC a success, and let's have a great, productive summer of code! Rob Buels OBF GSoC 2012 Administrator _______________________________________________ Open-Bio-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bio-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas Prlic Senior Scientist, RCSB PDB Protein Data Bank University of California, San Diego (+1) 858.246.0526 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
