hi, i m saleem from Jamia Millia Islamia. on which date is the programme going to begin?
thanx ;-) On 5/17/06, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > We had a meeting with Prof. Andrew Lynn of the JNU bio-informatics > centre last Monday, and while some fiscal details still need to get > sorted out at their end, we would like to start getting commitments > from people to participate in the program. > > It will be a 6-week workshop held on the JNU campus, from the > beginning of June, to mid-July. Over the longer term, the idea is to > come up with a complete suite of open-source software for bio- > informatics. The work will be sub-divided into smaller projects, and > student programmers from local Delhi colleges will be partnered with > people from JNU having expertise in bio-informatics. The student > programmers will do the actual coding, working alongside > bio-informatics students from JNU. The process will be guided by > mentors with expertise in open-source software practices. Over these > six weeks, we would be doing well to have a software requirements > specification (SRS) completed for all projects, and maybe coding > started. > > Thus, there are two kinds of participants that we need, namely mentors > and student programmers. Mentors will need to be able to show prior > involvement in at least one open-source software project or > group. While programming skills, especially in Perl, Python, Java, C > and C++, are desirable, knowledge of software design is a must. > Mentors would also need to have at least 2 years experience in > software design and development. Mentors will be approved by a > committee drawn from ILUG-D and JNU, will be paid about Rs. 750/day, > and will have to commit to being available over the 6-week period, > though, of course, not every day. > > Students should have excellent programming abilities, and will be > screened through a simple programming test. Students will need to > commit to being at the workshop every working day of the six weeks. > Arranging payment for students is a little more difficult for JNU, but > we should be able to at least cover travel expense, and it might be > possible to arrange accomodation in JNU hostels. Students will also be > given a certificate of participation from JNU at the end of the six > weeks, pending succesful progress in their project. > > Please discuss any aspects of the program here on the list. If you are > interested in participating, please make sure to also copy your email > to Raj Mathur and/or me. You can also reach me on my mobile at > 9868527992. The final list of chosen mentors and students will be > posted here. > > Regards, > Gora > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > -- o1p2e3n4g5l6 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
