[Phylobase-devl] PhyloSoC 2008 project ideas page is ready for editing

[Hilmar Lapp]

Just as a reminder, application submission deadline is today, 3pm EDT  
(12pm PDT, 19:00 UTC).

The project ideas page is coming together nicely. Thank you to  
everyone for your input and for spending the time to formulate a  
tractable idea!

I am pulling together the material for the application itself as a  
Google doc, which I'll publish a first draft of shortly. Any input  
will be much appreciated.

If you have not been a mentor last year but are listed as one this  
year (or if you have changed your Google account), *please* email me  
your Google ID ASAP. Google requires Google accounts from *all* mentors.

If you have suggested a project idea to me and I haven't gotten back  
to you it is solely due to the fact that I need to focus now on the  
application material and just haven't had time yet. Please don't be  
discouraged, I *will* get back to you. We can still add project ideas  
after we are accepted or while Google reviews the organization  
applications.

I have opened the IRC channel #phylosoc on Freenode and will hang out  
there most of the time until 3pm today. If you have questions or  
suggestions, feel free (read: encouraged) to join me there and type  
away.

(A list of IRC clients is for example at http://directory.google.com/ 
Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Chat/IRC/. I use X-Chat Aqua,  
which works really well. To join the channel, make sure you connect  
to Freenode, and then type

	/join #phylosoc

at the prompt.)

Also, if you are not yet subscribed to the wg-phyloinformatics list,  
please do so at your earliest convenience (https://lists.nescent.org/ 
mailman/listinfo/wg-phyloinformatics). I won't keep copying everyone.

Almost there!

	-hilmar

On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> the project ideas page for our mentoring organization application  
> is up at the following URL:
>
> http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2008
>
> This now needs to be fleshed out with project ideas.
>
> There is a link at the top of the page to last year's project ideas  
> (make sure you scroll down to the *Ideas* section; the accepted  
> projects part was added only later) so you get an idea for how  
> these might look like. Bottom line, succinctly state the problem  
> that the idea is addressing, be specific in approaches etc where  
> needed or useful (e.g., where that is clear already, or where there  
> are too many possibilities otherwise), be sure to provide pointers  
> to more information and background (URLs to software, citations/ 
> DOIs of method or background papers, etc).
>
> The project ideas should be in pretty good shape by Tuesday night  
> (3/11) at the latest, so I suggest that we aim for Monday night  
> (3/10) for an initial draft. They do not need to be in perfect  
> shape until we are accepted. Also, until the time students start  
> applying, the primary and secondary mentors do not need to be fully  
> nailed down yet, though there should be candidate names for both.
>
> If you have multiple project ideas, try to focus on one unless you  
> can drum up enough mentors for each. It is OK to be a secondary  
> (but not primary) mentor for another project idea than you  
> anticipate to be primary mentor for, or for multiple project ideas.
>
> If you are listed as a primary mentor, please also email me your  
> Google ID, as I will need to provide those in the application. Yes,  
> I should still have that if you were a mentor last year.
>
> In order to edit the page you will need to create yourself an  
> account on the wiki if you don't have one yet (but almost all of  
> you do already). To prevent clashes from concurrent editing I  
> recommend that you follow these steps:
>
> - click on the '[edit]' link to the left of the 'Ideas' heading
> - copy the project idea template and paste it underneath, change  
> the idea title to yours (can be a working title), *leave the rest  
> as is*
> - save
>
> This can be done relatively quickly, and hence has little chance to  
> directly co-incide with someone doing the same thing. Afterwards  
> you can click on the '[edit]' *to the left of the heading you just  
> created* and fill in the details for your project idea; this will  
> only pull up your particular section into the editor and hence  
> avoid the risk of multiple people editing the same section of text.
>
> You may also choose to just email me the template text with the  
> details filled in for your project idea, and I'll put it in for you  
> (you can still edit it afterwards).
>
> Finally, those of you who aren't yet subscribed to the wg- 
> phyloinformatics at nescent.org list, I'd encourage you to do so at  
> your earliest convenience, as then I don't run the risk of  
> forgetting to include you in Summer of Code-related communication.  
> The URL for subscribing is:
>
> https://lists.nescent.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-phyloinformatics
>
> Lastly, I'm available any time if you want to bounce off ideas or  
> if you want me to weigh in on prioritizing one idea versus another  
> or just for any other question you might have.
>
> I apologize for not getting this out sooner, but hopefully you've  
> all been cooking up some ideas already over the past week and a half.
>
> The ideas I've seen being rumored about so far are all pretty cool,  
> so I'm looking forward to pulling together again a strong application!
>
> 	-hilmar
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