Exams over
My exams (and my first year of college) got over a few days back. I have spent the last few days packing up and finishing a project which I couldn't complete before. Finally, I got back home today.
With the first meeting ( with Alex & Nigam) scheduled on 26th, I have a lot of things to do. I have been trying to setup a local server for Wikipathways but everytime I tried to checkout (SVN) the source code, it got stuck, apparently due to some problem in my net connection.
My goals for the next 10 days will be to develop a test plugin for wikipathways ( it is based on the mediawiki engine ) , to study more about 'Ontologies' and study the documentation on the API of BioPortal which we will be discussing further during the meeting .
As soon as I am done setting up a local site on Windows Vista, I will post the details.
GSOC 2009
Yeah ... long time since my last post..... What brings me back to blogging is GSOC. I got selected for Google Summer of Code 2009 :). I am one of the 9 lucky ones from my college who made it ( 101 selections in all from India ) .
For those of you who still dont get it ...whats GSOC is all about...
Its an annual program started in 2005 by Google, in which students from all over the world get to work for various OpenSource orgs n get a huge stipend, certificate from Google and a tshirt :) at the same time...
I got selected for the
GenMaPP organisation . I will be developing an annotation tool for
Wikipathways ( for more details read / wait for subsequent posts....) over the summer . My mentor is
Alexander Pico, he is a project lead for GenMapp and also its admin for GSOC.
During the course of this project , basically I want to improve my coding skills , get to be a part of an awesome community and yeah ... learn a lot of stuff while working under Alex... :)
You guys can also find out more details about the project on my Wiki
here . I will be regularly blogging about the project from now on ( as soon as i am finished with my exams :P )
Labels: GenMaPP, GSOC, Wikipathways
