Dear Jmol community, A bit over a week from now, the deadline for registering our project with Google's summer of code. We did not participate the last two years, but we can this year.
There are some things to sort out, but first lets talk about the advantages. 1. any student at a university can get payed for work on our project There are already some students working on Jmol. They can get payed for it! 4500 dollar or so! That should be a good incentive to have a student work on something interesting for your (research) group. Even PhD students qualify, all that is required is a proof that the student is associated with a university! 2,etc. more attention, more people working on Jmol, etc. OK, now what needs to be sorted out [1]: a. we need a main organization administrator Bob, Nico, or I could do this (or someone else...), and we need one backup. b. mentors The mentors are those who supervise the SoC students. Now consider that you have a student interested in a project in your research group, which involves Jmol code programming (*); you already supervise this student, so no new overhead in being a mentor. Moreover, mentoring can also be done via the internet, so basically anyone can be mentor. Additionally, the students are expected to participate in the Jmol community itself, so a mentor would not be at his/her own. (think mailing lists, IRC, wiki, etc) *. the only requirement is that all source code created gets contributed to the project c. projects Some projects are already listed [2], but any project is welcome which involves Jmol coding. There are only three project ideas listed now, so do feel free to add more there, and if you can, with a separate wiki page with details. d. students After the project has registered (and got approved), it is up to students to apply. For this, we will need to advertise the Google SoC with students. Students can come from any country, and I welcome anyone from anywhere to participate in this. Hope to year from you soon! Egon 1.http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 2.http://wiki.jmol.org:81/index.php/ProgrammeerZomer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cologne University Bioinformatics Center (CUBIC) Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ GPG: 1024D/D6336BA6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
