[Treebase-devel] Phyloinformatics Summer of Code 2012: Call for mentors and project ideas

[Karen C. <kar...@gm...>]

Over the next 3 weeks NESCent will be putting together our application
as a mentoring organization to the 2012 Google Summer of Code:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012

This is a call for all prospective mentors, primary and secondary, to
step forward. Our primary admin for this year is me, Karen Cranston,
but I am thrilled to announce that Jim Proctor (Jalview) will be
joining me as secondary admin.

Participating as an organization is competitive, with an acceptance
rate of 30-35%. The most important component of an organization
application are the Project Ideas. These project ideas are contributed
by you, our mentors. Ideally, our list of potential projects is
diverse, with different degrees of difficulty, from different
participating open-source projects, using different programming
languages. This year, we are making a special effort to attract more
women as mentors and as applicants to the program.

If you have an idea of how a student could contribute to your
open-source project, or would you like to serve as a mentor or help
someone else as a secondary mentor, contact us at
phy...@ne... so that we can add you to our (private)
mentors mailing list (if you aren't already on the list). Then, add
your project idea and information about yourself to the informatics
wiki (*):

http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2012

We will send further guidance on drafting project ideas, but for now
you can see examples on pages from previous years (click on "Ideas"):

http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2011
http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010
http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2008
http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2007

If you are new to Summer of Code and wonder what it takes or what it
is like to be a mentor, don't hesitate to ask questions or to contact
previous mentors (see URLs above for past projects). Being a mentor
does require time (see http://goo.gl/iluTd), but our past mentors have
almost unanimously found it a fun and rewarding experience. The
student contributes code to your project, and has the potential to
stay on as a developer beyond the end of the Summer of Code.

The organizational application is due March 9. In order to include a
project idea in our submission, it must be in reasonable shape by the
morning of March 9. If we are then accepted, ideas can be refined (or
added) between March 17-25. See http://goo.gl/Jzeq5 for a full
timeline of the whole program.

Feel free to forward this call to colleagues or other relevant mailing lists.

Cheers, and we look forward to hearing from you!

        Karen Cranston
        Jim Proctor

(*) To edit content on the NESCent Informatics wiki, you have to
login. If you don't already have an account, you can create one using
OpenID or your Google account. When you edit the Project Ideas
section, you will see a template you can use as the basis for an idea.

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Karen Cranston, PhD
Training Coordinator and Informatics Project Manager
nescent.org
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