[GSoC2021] [OGI] Participation in Google Summer of Code 2021
by Robin Haw
Dear All,
The Open Genome Informatics team serves as an “umbrella" organization to support the efforts of many open-access open-source bioinformatics projects for <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/> Google Summer of Code (GSoC<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>). Among this list of projects are Reactome and GMOD and its software projects -- JBrowse; Galaxy; WormBase; and others.
Call for 2021 Project Ideas and Mentors: We are seeking project ideas to post and attract talented students to this year’s Summer of Code competition. If you have a project idea for which you would like to mentor a student, please contact Robin Haw, Marc Gillespie, and Scott Cain (emails above).
You can also submit your ideas here<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2021>.
For more information please refer to the Open Genome Informatics page on the GMOD.org website<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC><http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC#Google_Summer_of_Code_2020>.
The mentoring organization application deadline with GSoC is February 19th at 2 pm EST. So, if you are interested in taking part with the team please let us know as soon as possible.
Please forward this to others who might be interested in taking part.
If you have any questions please let us know.
Thanks,
Robin, Marc, and Scott.
2 months, 2 weeks
Galaxy community paper
by Björn Grüning
Hi all,
we have been accepted to publish an updated version of the Galaxy
community paper 🎉
If you’ve made substantial contributions to the Galaxy community
ecosystem (core framework, tools, GTN, public server maintenance, user
support, etc.) over the past two years, please add your details as an
author into this form:
https://bit.ly/nar-author-2022
Thank you all!
Bjoern
3 months, 4 weeks
10 years of the Galactic News: we need your help
by Beatriz Serrano-Solano
Dear all,
Happy new year!
For 10 years, we have been sharing news through the monthly Galactic
News. This is a milestone and we are so proud of the community that we
built together. A lot can change over 10 years and we want to know which
parts of the Galaxy newsletter are the most useful and which parts may
need to be modified to suit your needs.
Please take *2 minutes to fill out **this survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdws7R3y_4qB4LNNbqx4qYRNlkmuwmnq...>*
so that we can create a newsletter that will better serve our growing
community.
Thank you for reading and here's to the next 10 years,
Assunta and Bea
4 months, 2 weeks
