GMOD
GSoC
Contents
- 1 Google Summer of Code 2024 @ Open Genome Informatics
- 2 Mailing lists, IRC, and other ways to get in touch
- 3 Project Ideas
- 4 Preparing for GSoC 2024
Google Summer of Code 2024 @ Open Genome Informatics
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students, developers, and other contributors stipends to write code for various open-source software projects. We work with many open-source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a 12+ week period. Since its inception seventeen years ago, the program has brought together over 20,000 successful participants from 116 countries, 850+ open-source organizations, and has generated over 45 million lines of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all. The program is open to students and to beginners in open source software development. The length of the projects is 90, 175 and 350-hours, and there is an option to extend the program from the standard 12 weeks up to 22 weeks. (Excerpt from the Google Summer of Code website)
Since 2011, the Open Genome Informatics group has served as an “umbrella organization” to a variety of bioinformatics projects, including GMOD and its software projects – JBrowse, Apollo, Chado, Galaxy etc.; Mouse Genome Informatics; OICR; Reactome; WormBase; and Bioconda.
More information about this year’s participating bioinformatics groups can be found here.
To learn more about this year’s event and how GSoC works, please refer to the FAQ.
Mailing lists, IRC, and other ways to get in touch
- Email: rhaw@oicr.on.ca and help@gmod.org – find out more about GSoC, a specific project, or your potential mentor(s).
- Discussion mailing lists: Genome Informatics Google Groups - ask about our projects; join the community!
- Students and Mentors can email both Robin and Scott to get more information about the program.
Project Ideas
Got an idea for a GSOC project? Add it here. Ideas will be included in the proposal we send to GSOC, and great ideas make for a great proposal, so please add yours now.
These projects can use a broad set of skills, technologies, and domains,
such as GUIs, database integration, and algorithms. Students are also
encouraged to propose their own ideas related to our projects. If you
have strong computer skills and have an interest in biology or
bioinformatics, you should definitely apply!
Do not hesitate to propose your own project idea: some of the best
applications we see are by students that go this route. As long as it
is relevant to one of our projects, we will give it serious
consideration. Creativity and self-motivation are great traits for
open-source programmers.
Preparing for GSoC 2024
Right now it is the organization application process for GSoC - we won’t know if Open Genome Informatics has been accepted as a GSOC 2024 mentoring organization until February 22nd. Nevertheless, it is a perfect time if students would like to talk to mentors about project ideas. If you are interested in mentoring, please check the Mentors section below, and contact the organization admin.
Contributors
More information about writing your application will be available closer to the start of the student application period.
Mentors
We encourage mentors and mentoring organizations to think about new projects year-round! If you’d like help with your ideas page or your separate mentoring org application, please feel to contact the organization admins. Links to advice about mentoring and other resources are available.
Source Code
Genome and bioinformatics projects that participate in the Open Genome Informatics group maintain there own source code repositories.