Wearing my "admin for Open Chemistry" hat for the moment.. As a community, we've been very lucky to get a lot of good open source chemistry development done over the last few years.
Moreover, many of these students are now exposed to RDKit, cheminformatics, and good coding. (In other words, they're good recruits for both academic and industrial positions. ;-) Google is never open about their criteria for allocating the number of slots to organizations. Still, groups with more mentors are more likely to get more slots. I'll be more blunt than Greg - without more mentors we will be forced to make very hard choices. We'll probably still need to do that, but finding a few more co-mentors will certainly help RDKit. -Geoff > On Apr 1, 2020, at 2:16 AM, Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Yesterday was the last day for potential students to submit applications for > Google Summer of Code and we got proposals for the following five projects: > 1) RDKit integration with MongoDB. Python based > 2) Implement a generalized file reader and a multi-threaded file reader. C++ > based > 3) Integrating trained neural networks (specifically ANI-like force fields) > into the RDKit. C++ based > 4) RDKit-OpenMM integration. C++ based > 5) Improved RDKit integration with Jupyter, Dask, Pandas, Plotly, and Bokeh. > Python based > > There's more about the first four projects here: > https://wiki.openchemistry.org/GSoC_Ideas_2020#RDKit_Project_Ideas > <https://wiki.openchemistry.org/GSoC_Ideas_2020#RDKit_Project_Ideas> and I'm > happy to answer questions about them. > > We have a mentor and co-mentor for each of these projects, but I'm looking > for a few more people to act as co-mentors. It doesn't make sense to do a > project without at least two mentors - one primary mentor and one co-mentor- > and Google is strongly encouraging organizations to have three mentors - one > primary and two co-mentors - available for each project. Being a co-mentor is > going to require an hour or two a week on average over the course of the > program. > > There's more information on the program, including the dates, here: > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/ > <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/> > > GSoC is really a great program and being a mentor/co-mentor is a good way to > help move both the open-source community and the RDKit forward. > > If you're interested or have questions, feel free to send me email, > -greg > > _______________________________________________ > Rdkit-discuss mailing list > Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
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