Dear all, Unfortunately this year we have not been accepted on the Google Summer of Code scheme:
I'm sure the rest of the OBF board and the other Bio* developers will join me in thanking Pjotr Prins for his efforts as the OBF GSoC administrator co-ordinating our application this year, as well as last year's administrator Rob Bruels and the other mentors for their efforts. For those of you not subscribed to the OBF's GSoC mailing list, I am forwarding Pjotr's email from last night (also below): http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/gsoc/2013/000211.html In all 177 organisations were accepted (about the same as the last few years), and they will be listed here (once they have filled out their profile information): https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013 To potential students this summer, the good news is that some related organisations have been accepted, such as NESCent, the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB - known for Cytoscape), SciRuby (Ruby Science Foundation), so there is still some scope for doing a bioinformatics related project in GSoC 2013, perhaps even with a Bio* developer as a co-mentor. Thank you all, Peter (Biopython developer, OBF board member) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:13 PM Subject: Re: GSoC 2013 is ON To: Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> Cc: ..., OBF GSoC <[email protected]> Sadly, our application got rejected by GSoC this year. I am not sure what the reason was, but I am convinced our application was similar to that of other years. Maybe the project ideas could have been better presented. I am not sure at this stage. I'll make a list of successful projects to see if we can digest some truths. The upside is that FOSS is going strong! And that the field is getting increasingly competitive. As an open source geezer I can only be happy, even if it hurts our own application. Sorry everyone, and many thanks for the trouble you took getting projects written up. Let's not feel discouraged for next year. Pj. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
