RE: [Oscar-devel] Google Summer of Code application

[Bernard Li]

Title: Re: [Oscar-devel] Google Summer of Code application

Hi Joao:

 

You definitely want to propose something that _you_ think is doable within 3 months.  We will be there to guide you and help you out as much as we can, but ultimately it is your project and you know your abilities best.  Therefore, it is really up to you to decide what you are capable of achieving in the three months.  Of course, we do not want you to spend all the time working on this during the summer - as a student, you probably want to go outside and enjoy your time off school - you will get plenty of time to work when you graduate ;-)

 

If you are interested in creating Bioinformatics packages for OSCAR, I suggest you propose a list of applications you would like to work on.  I would throw in Sun Grid Engine too.

 

For the Thin-OSCAR project, I will talk to the developers who were involved before to see whether they think it is achievable during three months time.

 

For the OSCAR Knoppix idea, since Knoppix is Debian-based (I believe), perhaps the OSCARonDebian folks may have some ideas about this - my original idea of bootable CD/DVD is more related to using Red Hat based systems with kickstart and automation using scripts.

 

I am not sure how many proposals you may make, perhaps you can make a couple, but definitely choose the project you are most interested in, where you can learn the most from and also achiveable within the program time frame.

 

Of course, after all this is done, you are welcome to continue working on OSCAR.

 

Cheers,

 

Bernard

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From: Joao Paulo Samara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 7:39 PM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] Google Summer of Code application

        I plan to spend at least half a day(4hrs), each day on the project. It
would be good if we choose what are the short term goals for
Google's Application. Can you help me choose what is going to be the
primary goals, the one's you will be evaluating me?

> 1) Create OSCAR packages for all relevant bioinformatics tools that run
> on clusters
> 2) Thin-OSCAR (diskless OSCAR)
> 
        This would be great since I could spend part of my internship on this
also. Its very important for our research lab.

> Deliverables
>      -Incorporate a configurable LiveCD image creation,
> possibly using Knoppix.
>      - Create the Sun Grid Engine package.
>      - Port OSCAR to other distros(Centos/FC4)
>      - Add support to other processor architectures:
>      (x86_64, SPARC, ALPHA).
>      *-Enhance OSCAR to become a standalone, configurable distribution.

        According to your suggestions, perhaps I should "trim" this a bit to
what is more useful and deliverable within 3 months of work.
I'm accepting your suggestions to subit to google ASAP.

Regards,

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