Re: [Jmol-users] Google Summer of Code proposal for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization

2010-03-26 Thread Christian M Zmasek
Hi, Egon:

Thank you for your reply.

 > That means you will have a first full time mentor from the NESCent?

If we find a sufficiently qualified student and if this particular 
project gets accepted (Nescent currently has 17 proposed projects, and, 
if past experience is any guide, we might get around 6 slots from 
Google, see 
https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010)
 
then, indeed, I would be the primary mentor (although I don't work for 
Nescent).

Christian




Egon Willighagen wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Christian M Zmasek  
> wrote:
>> I am the main developer of the Archaeopteryx phylogenetic tree viewer
>> (http://www.phylosoft.org/archaeopteryx/).
>>
>> For this year's Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) we
>> developed a proposal to essentially extend Archaeopteryx with Jmol so
>> that it can be used for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization, see:
> 
> That's great to hear!
> 
>> https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010#Visualization_of_Protein_3D_Structure_Evolution
> 
> Members of the Blue Obelisk community have tried in the past to get in
> as mentoring organization, but that always failed...
> 
>> I was wondering if a Jmol developer or experienced user would be willing
>>  to help with this project, as "co-mentor".
>> In this case, "co-mentoring" would mean helping out with questions
>> specific to Jmol (time commitment is expected to be minimal, maybe
>> 1h/week or less for the duration of the program -- 3 months).
> 
> That means you will have a first full time mentor from the NESCent?
> 
> Egon
> 


--
Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev
___
Jmol-users mailing list
Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users


Re: [Jmol-users] Google Summer of Code proposal for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization

2010-03-25 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi Christian,

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Christian M Zmasek  wrote:
> I am the main developer of the Archaeopteryx phylogenetic tree viewer
> (http://www.phylosoft.org/archaeopteryx/).
>
> For this year's Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) we
> developed a proposal to essentially extend Archaeopteryx with Jmol so
> that it can be used for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization, see:

That's great to hear!

> https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010#Visualization_of_Protein_3D_Structure_Evolution

Members of the Blue Obelisk community have tried in the past to get in
as mentoring organization, but that always failed...

> I was wondering if a Jmol developer or experienced user would be willing
>  to help with this project, as "co-mentor".
> In this case, "co-mentoring" would mean helping out with questions
> specific to Jmol (time commitment is expected to be minimal, maybe
> 1h/week or less for the duration of the program -- 3 months).

That means you will have a first full time mentor from the NESCent?

Egon

-- 
Post-doc @ Uppsala University
Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg
Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/
Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/
PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers

--
Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev
___
Jmol-users mailing list
Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users


[Jmol-users] Google Summer of Code proposal for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization

2010-03-25 Thread Christian M Zmasek
Hi,

I am the main developer of the Archaeopteryx phylogenetic tree viewer
(http://www.phylosoft.org/archaeopteryx/).

For this year's Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) we 
developed a proposal to essentially extend Archaeopteryx with Jmol so 
that it can be used for 3D protein-structure evolution visualization, see:
https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010#Visualization_of_Protein_3D_Structure_Evolution

I was wondering if a Jmol developer or experienced user would be willing 
  to help with this project, as "co-mentor".
In this case, "co-mentoring" would mean helping out with questions 
specific to Jmol (time commitment is expected to be minimal, maybe 
1h/week or less for the duration of the program -- 3 months).

Below you can find a "Call for Mentors", written by Hilmar Lapp.

Sincerely,

Christian Zmasek



As some of you have already noticed, the Google Summer of Code 2010 is
on. As in the past 3 years, NESCent will again apply as a mentoring
organization.

This is a heads up that we will be pulling together our application
over the next 3 weeks, and a call for all prospective mentors, primary
and secondary, to step forward.

Participating as an organization is competitive. Over the last years
the acceptance rate for organizations has been around 30-35%. As in
previous years, the most important component of our application will
again be our Ideas page, and specifically the quality and suitability
of the project ideas. These are contributed by you, our mentors. In
the past we have had a strong, diverse and well-documented portfolio
of ideas with different degrees of difficulty, from different
projects, using different programming languages.

If you can fancy yourself serving as a mentor, or helping someone else
mentoring a student, please drop me an email as soon as you can. I
will create a mailing list of all who respond, and will send further
guidance on drafting project ideas there.

If you are new to Summer of Code, don't hesitate to ask me questions
or to contact previous mentors (see URLs below for projects that got
selected). Being a mentor does require time (see 
http://bit.ly/soc2010-mentortime), but our past mentors have pretty much 
unanimously found it a fun and rewarding experience. That's aside from 
the code a student could contribute to your project, and, possibly most 
important of all in the long run, the chance to gain a new developer.

For now, you can see examples of the format and scope of project ideas
on the Ideas pages from previous years (click on "Ideas"):

http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2008
http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2007

I will set up the page for 2010 shortly, but it is not too early to
start thinking about a project idea now.

Dates:
==

Submission of organization applications starts March 8 and closes on
March 12. For project ideas to contribute to the strength of our
application they must be in reasonable shape by the morning of March
12. *If* we are accepted, ideas can be refined (or added) between
March 18-26.

Students apply March 29-April 9, and selected students are announced
April 26. The coding period runs from May 24 to August 16. See 
http://bit.ly/soc2010-timeline for a full timeline of the whole program.

--
Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev
___
Jmol-users mailing list
Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users