GSoCers Assemble! Announcing the InterMine GSOC 2017 students

Google Summer of Code is officially open as of 16:00 UTC today! This year InterMine will have five students coding over the summer, with five projects:

• InterMineR will be getting better docs and hopefully submitted to R repos. Konstantinos Kyritsis will be working on this with the help of InterMine mentors Julie and Rachel.
• Our Android App will get a younger sibling in the form of an iOS app, thanks to Nadia Yudina. I’ll be the primary mentor for this project.
• We’ll finally have a proper registry of all the great InterMines out there, brought to you by Leonardo Kuffo with Daniela mentoring the project.
• Samyadeep Basu will be looking at an ‘InterMine Similarity project’ – given a Gene (or other entity) from InterMine – are there any other interesting entities related to it in some way? Josh is the lead mentor on this project.
• Yash Sharma will be working on creating Neo4j-InterMine API endpoints under Sam Hokin‘s mentorship.

We wish we could have accepted more of you. In total we had more than 40 students interested in GSoC 2017 with InterMine, resulting in around 30 finalised applications. Many of the applications were brilliant – far more than we could possibly have accepted. Deciding who to accept was really tough, and even if you didn’t get a place in GSoC with us you’re still entirely welcome to contribute to any of our projects if you had any ideas.

Suggestions for accepted students

Congratulations on being accepted. We’re really glad to have you on board. Please have a quick read through our GSoC guidelines to get started.

During the community bonding period, here are a few ideas for getting involved.

• Find out more details that might pertain to your project (obviously) – investigate the API or work on bugs
• Project management – in your project’s GitHub repo create milestones, tickets, project boards as appropriate.
• Write an intro blog post about yourself & your planned work (to be posted here and/or a personal blog we could link to).
• Come hang in the chat (below).

Non-GSoC InterMine community: you can play too!

We’ve created a couple of chat rooms at chat.intermine.org. We’ll be encouraging our GSoC students to hang out in the #general channel, and you’re welcome to, as well. The students are from all around the world – come make them feel at home!