Hi Rafiya, thanks for your interest in Debian Med.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:21:41PM +0000, Rafiya Javed wrote: > Hope this email finds you well. I'm an applicant to the Outreachy summer > internship program, and came across a couple of project ideas for Debian > that listed you as a mentor. I take the freedom to forward my answer quoting your mail to the Debian Med mailing list since all our communication will happen there anyway. > I'm pretty interested in contributing to the Debian Med project. I was > wondering if you're still looking for applicants for that and if so, I just > wanted to let you know that I'll get try to tackle this bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848332 Fine. Please observe this thread[1] which bug might be taken by some other Outreachy applicant. > Also - about me: I'm actually an MD that defected from the world of > medicine, and I'm doing a CS masters. I'm not exactly a PhD in > bioinformatics (in case that's what's required for this) but I have a > strong technical background (BS physics, did computational neuro research > during med school) and I think I have a good feel for the nature of > healthcare/biological data. Sounds good. > I've never contributed to Debian (or understood the package manager) > before, so I expect that the initial setup will take me the most time. If > you have any tips, I am all ears :) For this purpose we have the Debian Med policy document[2] and the Mentoring of the Month project[3]. Please have a look there and do not hesitate to ask here. (The please ask here advise is valid for any other reader here.) > Thanks! > Rafiya Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/03/msg00035.html [2] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM -- http://fam-tille.de
