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Comment on Incubating synthesis: NESCent goes IRC, and you can join by kate dircksen

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Comment on Remote tree reconstruction is (almost) here by Feifei Xu

Feifei Xu — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:42:08 +0000

Hi,

I like the idea of this project. And I was trying out the service, but didn’t get it started probably. Wonder if I can get any help? The following try gives me an error “Analysis name is missing or invalid”. I wonder where can i get the help over the analysis name? And could you point me to some good documentation of how to use this service? Thanks a lot.

curl -F “datafile=@Contig8.fas” -F email=”feifei.xu@ebc.uu.se” -F “analysis=PROTCATJTT” -F tool=RAxML -F datatype=AA_DATATYPE -D h.txt http://8ball.sdsc.edu:8888/cipres-web/restapi/job

Comment on Phyloinformatics Summer of Code is on for 2008 by drycafe

drycafe — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Hi – we have been accepted again this year, I’m overdue on posting an update. Check out http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009

Comment on Phyloinformatics Summer of Code is on for 2008 by N.Indira priyadharsini

N.Indira priyadharsini — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:58:38 +0000

I am doing my I M.Sc Bioinformatics .I want to know whether you offer summer project for our course and send me about the procedure to apply

Comment on Phyloinformatics Summer of Code is on for 2008 by Summer of Code will take place in 2009 « Evolving Bits

Summer of Code will take place in 2009 « Evolving Bits — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:03:54 +0000

[...] As I wrote previously, I have been fortunate enough to participate in the program for the last two years, as mentor and as organization administrator for NESCent. The program has allowed us to train future scientists in distributed software development skills and methods that aren’t normally taught in the university curriculum, and at the same to nurture a more sustainable developer community in phyloinformatics. [...]

Comment on Incubating synthesis: NESCent goes IRC, and you can join by Pushing the envelope on remote interaction: my talk, live, interactive « Evolving Bits

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:54:13 +0000

[...] Brian O’Meara, the mind behind TreeTapper, will concomitantly watch and moderate our IRC channel (#nescent on Freenode). You are welcome to log on and rant about the talk as I am presenting it, or [...]

Comment on Summer of Code: tough decisions and how much competition is too much? by Incubating synthesis: NESCent goes IRC, and you can join « Evolving Bits

Incubating synthesis: NESCent goes IRC, and you can join « Evolving Bits — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:44:56 +0000

As I noted earlier, one of the things we did differently this year for our Summer of Code participation is to maintain a presence on IRC [...]

Comment on Summer of Code: tough decisions and how much competition is too much? by drycafe

drycafe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:14:53 +0000

Hi Erica, the number of mentoring organizations went up quite a bit this year, from about 130 last year to 178. The SoC program also received more applications (>7,100) this year than last year, but Google also is funding about 25% more students in total (there are more statistics at the Google Open Source Blog). So while it's possible that the increased number of participating organizations was a factor, I don't think it was a significant one. I think you're right that we didn't pay enough attention to having language that specifically addresses concerns that newbies might have. We'll have to think more thoroughly about this next year. Thanks for your comments, really appreciate it.

Comment on Summer of Code: tough decisions and how much competition is too much? by Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai

Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:25:28 +0000

I’m sad to hear that the PSoC got so few slots this year. How did the total number of mentoring organizations change from last year? I’m just wondering if that could be a factor in the decreased number.

If you want to increase the number of “newbies” to the program, maybe in some of the idea pitches we could have more newbie-friendly language or even designate some projects as part of a “newbie-program”. Or even have a “pep talk” section of the wiki. But that may be too much hand holding. It could also be difficult to recruit mentors to work specifically with newbies. Hmmm. It’s a difficult balance to strike. Regardless, it sounds like we need to get the application rate up in order to get more slots.

Comment on Phyloinformatics Summer of Code is on for 2008 by Summer of Code: tough decisions and how much competition is too much? « Evolving Bits

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:34:42 +0000

[...] where we could envision someone going all the way from a user to a fully capable contributor, so a repeat of Erica’s story from last year is unlikely. [...]