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Google is committed to run the Summer of Code program again this year. It will be for the 5th time.

In broad strokes, the program funds what you might call remote summer internships for students to contribute to an open-source software project. Projects (or umbrella organizations) wishing to participate in the program apply during the organization application period (March 9-13 in 2009). Those accepted into the program provide project ideas and supply mentors that guide the work on those. Students apply to a project within the program with specific project ideas, based on those suggested or based on their own idea, get ranked by the mentors of the project, and those accepted into the program get paired up with mentors. Projects are chiefly about programming, the coding period is 3 months (Jun-Aug), and there is no travel required by either student or mentor. The program is global; other than the US trade restrictions that Google is under, there are no restrictions as to where student or mentor reside. The main motivations behind the program are to recruit new contributors to open-source projects, and to produce more open-source code. See the program FAQs for more information.

O|B|F News feed is now available in Twitter! You are welcome to follow us.

Cheers, The O|B|F Admins.

The OBF Conference call is scheduled for 12:30PM to 2PM PST on Wednesday Nov 19, 2008.  Members of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and those interested in the decisions are invited to listen in and participate.  A brief agenda is available here.

Please email Hilmar Lapp at hlapp _AT_ gmx.net for call in number and codes if you wish to participate or listen to the discussion.  Those official members should have gotten an email via the  OBF members email list.

If you’ll be at BOSC or ISMB - please see this page and sign your name if you would like to try and meet up.  We’ll do a developer’s dinner as well as have a BoF.

http://bioperl.org/wiki/BOSC2007_Meetup

I’ve added a page about RSS feeds in BioPerl. These include links to CVS commits as a RSS feed. This a bit of a hack using cvs2rss and cvs2cl and I have hardcoded it to show the last 30 commits only.

In addition RSS news is now embedded on the main BioPerl and Tracking CVS commits webpages to make for better interlinking between the news and wiki site ( you might even be reading this there).

The newest summary of the BioPerl mailing lists has been posted to the wiki:

• April 12-25

Post gripes, harrassments, and faint praises at the regular places.

The first of a biweekly summary of BioPerl mailing list summaries has been posted to the wiki:

• April 1-11

These will likely be archived on the wiki but may be moved to a more suitable location in the future (maybe to this blog?).

I plan on starting a weekly, possibly biweekly, summary of mailing list traffic. These will be somewhat in the same vein as the Perl5 or Perl6 summaries and will be posted on the blog here and sent to the bioperl-l mail list. Barring another natural disaster here, these should start up next week (covering mail list traffic starting from April 1). The summaries will cover traffic mainly from bioperl-l (the main mail list) but will include biosql-l, since it’s fairly low traffic, and bugs/module updates from bioperl-guts-l.

GMANE has been tracking BioPerl traffic for a few years now.

You can see the page here There are several interfaces there including threaded and BLOG-like.

Those interested in tracking the mailing list in RSS readers should grab this link.

There is also a search option for the archives. Try to search GMANE for BLAST