Hi, As you have probably read by now, this year's OBF students for the Google summer of code are going to other Bio* projects, and none for BioJava. This has to do with several factors:
- Overall applications were down by 53% this year - None of the BioJava related proposals was scored high enough In order to help students prepare stronger proposals for next year, I believe we should try to prepare things differently: - More concrete project topics from our side. Our approach to provide open topics and let student fill in details did not work well this year. - Less challenging topics, some of our topics were perhaps too difficult. - Overall we should try to have more mentors comment on the list and help students prepare good project plans. - More marketing so we can spread the word to more students. I want to thank all students and potential mentors who invested time into this. Even if we did not succeed this time, I do hope we all learnt something in the process and can find a way to work together on BioJava also beyond the scope of GSoC. Andreas _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
