Great thanks for your support Egon! We'll certainly bear this in mind when drafting the application - and make sure we explicitly mention open data in science as an area where we may have mentors and would be interested in doing something! :-)
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Egon Willighagen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Suggest we could put in for: >> >> * CKAN >> * WDMMG / Open Spending >> * Annotator >> * Public Domain Works >> * Bibliographica >> * Open Literature >> * YourTopia >> * [others?] > > There is interest from http://toxbank.net/ to do something. > Toxicological data is not abundant, and potential providers are not > too eager, bar opentox.org. It would be great to have a student to > work on Open Data in toxicology, and I think I can be available as > mentor. I have been one before (for kde.org) but would need a > co-mentor to cover my back while I am on holiday and/or conference > this summer. > >> In the first instance we need: >> >> * Someone to coordinate the OKF's Google Summer of Code application >> (suggest internal deadline of 8-9th March to give us time to review >> this) >> * Someone to be the OKF's main 'administrator' for Summer of Code > > I do not think I will have much time to contribute, but like to > express my full support for an application. Since the application is > in fact does ask about giving some idea on how prepared the > organization is, I invite others to openly show their willingness to > mentor during the summer too. It will all be online, and mentoring a > student takes some effort, but is not solely on the mentor's > shoulders. > > So, if you like the idea of the GSoC, please do show your support now! > This can be as simple as providing ideas! > > Egon > > -- > Dr E.L. Willighagen > Postdoctoral Researcher > Institutet för miljömedicin > Karolinska Institutet > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
