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 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>. Among this list of projects are GMOD and its software projects -- GBrowse, JBrowse; Galaxy; Reactome; WormBase; DockStore; Bioconda; and others. Call for 2020 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, Dave Clements, Dannon Baker, and Scott Cain (emails above). You can also submit your ideas here<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2020>. For more information please refer to the Open Genome Informatics page on the GMOD.org website<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC#Google_Summer_of_Code_2020>. The mentoring organization application deadline with GSoC is February 5th 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, Dave, Dannon, and Scott. Robin Haw, PhD Reactome | JBrowse - Senior Project Manager and Outreach Co-ordinator robin.haw@oicr.on.ca<mailto:robin.haw@oicr.on.ca> Ontario Institute for Cancer Research MaRS Centre, 661 University Avenue, Suite 510, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 0A3 @OICR_news | www.oicr.on.ca | @reactome | reactome.org | @JBrowseGossip | jbrowse.org Collaborate. Translate. Change lives. This message and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by anyone other than the person for whom it was originally intended is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Opinions, conclusions or other information contained in this message may not be that of the organization.