Hi, I am the main developer of the Archaeopteryx phylogenetic tree viewer (http://www.phylosoft.org/archaeopteryx/).
For this year's Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) we developed a proposal to essentially extend Archaeopteryx with Jmol so that it can be used for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization, see: https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010#Visualization_of_Protein_3D_Structure_Evolution I was wondering if a Jmol developer or experienced user would be willing to help with this project, as "co-mentor". In this case, "co-mentoring" would mean helping out with questions specific to Jmol (time commitment is expected to be minimal, maybe 1h/week or less for the duration of the program -- 3 months). Below you can find a "Call for Mentors", written by Hilmar Lapp. Sincerely, Christian Zmasek ------------ As some of you have already noticed, the Google Summer of Code 2010 is on. As in the past 3 years, NESCent will again apply as a mentoring organization. This is a heads up that we will be pulling together our application over the next 3 weeks, and a call for all prospective mentors, primary and secondary, to step forward. Participating as an organization is competitive. Over the last years the acceptance rate for organizations has been around 30-35%. As in previous years, the most important component of our application will again be our Ideas page, and specifically the quality and suitability of the project ideas. These are contributed by you, our mentors. In the past we have had a strong, diverse and well-documented portfolio of ideas with different degrees of difficulty, from different projects, using different programming languages. If you can fancy yourself serving as a mentor, or helping someone else mentoring a student, please drop me an email as soon as you can. I will create a mailing list of all who respond, and will send further guidance on drafting project ideas there. If you are new to Summer of Code, don't hesitate to ask me questions or to contact previous mentors (see URLs below for projects that got selected). Being a mentor does require time (see http://bit.ly/soc2010-mentortime), but our past mentors have pretty much unanimously found it a fun and rewarding experience. That's aside from the code a student could contribute to your project, and, possibly most important of all in the long run, the chance to gain a new developer. For now, you can see examples of the format and scope of project ideas on the Ideas pages from previous years (click on "Ideas"): http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009 http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2008 http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2007 I will set up the page for 2010 shortly, but it is not too early to start thinking about a project idea now. Dates: ====== Submission of organization applications starts March 8 and closes on March 12. For project ideas to contribute to the strength of our application they must be in reasonable shape by the morning of March 12. *If* we are accepted, ideas can be refined (or added) between March 18-26. Students apply March 29-April 9, and selected students are announced April 26. The coding period runs from May 24 to August 16. See http://bit.ly/soc2010-timeline for a full timeline of the whole program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
