[Neuroinfo] Call for INCF mentors and project ideas for GSOC 2022 - deadline January 15 & 25

[Malin Sandström]

Dear all,

----  please forward this call to potentially interested mentors in your
network ---

INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com> for the 12th time running.

We are calling for open source software development project ideas with some
sort of *neuro connection* - fixes or extensions to big/broadly applicable
or small/niche tools used by neuroscience researchers, efforts and
initiatives in the broad field of computational neuroscience. If your
project supports or implements INCF endorsed standards or best practices
<https://www.incf.org/resources/sbps>, we especially encourage you to
apply. We are also* looking for mentors who are willing to take on
student-proposed projects *that fit their interests.

As you may have seen earlier this year, Google has announced some changes
to the GSoC program for 2022:

   - Candidate *eligibility* will widen, the only requirement is that
   candidates are newcomers to open source (instead of "GSoC student", the
   official term Google uses is now "GSoC contributor").
   - The project *effort* can be half-time or full-time - 175 or 350 hours.
   Everyone submitting at least two project ideas will be asked to *include
   both half-time and full-time projects*.
   - Project end dates can be extended (but not moved earlier), at the
   discretion of the org admin. To keep the administration manageable, *we
   will only accept projects initially planned for a 12 week duration*.
   Extensions during the program period will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Also, the usual reminder: there is no guarantee that INCF will be accepted
as a mentoring organization this year; Google announces the accepted
organizations sometime in March. Please be clear with this in your
communication with students.

The timeline will be similar to the years before, but the dates are not yet
set. We expect applications to open early February and close two weeks
later (with accepted organizations announced a couple of weeks later). We
aim to have a live Project Ideas list from mid January.

*Important*: Interested mentors need to contact us (malin at incf.org with CC
to gsoc at incf.org) early with a declaration of interest and a short summary
of the intended project(s), latest *January 15*. Full project descriptions
need to be submitted by *January 25*.

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Submission instructions

Each submission should come by email to malin at incf.org with CC to
gsoc at incf.org, and contain:

1) An informative title with relevant keywords (good-to-have: name of
tool/project, name of programming language(s) or tools used)

2) A project description including a brief general intro, motivation, aims,
scope and skills/skill level needed. Please make sure to clearly state

   - the planned effort (175 or 350 hours)
   - the intended skill level (beginner, novice, intermediate, advanced)
   - the list of pre-requisite skills the contributor will need to have
   - 2-5 tech keywords (Python, C++, Java, SQL, REST, CUDA, ...)

For submissions with two or more project ideas, *please include at least
one project of each size (175 or 350 hours)*.

3) At least *one lead mentor + one named co-mentor/backup mentor* who would
be able and willing to back the main mentor up in mentoring in case
something unforeseen happens. There can be more than one, as long as you
are internally clear on who does what.

4) Any planned longer absences during the lead up/student interaction
period (February - April) or the project period (May - August), and the
plan for covering them.

5) Format: your choice - txt, doc, docx, pdf or a link to a webpage with
the full description(s). Anything that can be copied and pasted.

*Please note*: Project ideas will be posted on the forum Neurostars.org
after the Ideas list goes live, and* prospective mentors are expected to
join the forum and be available for questions* from students during the run
up to the announcement (late Jan - early March) and the student
interactions period (March-April). This can be handled mostly by email, if
you prefer, once you have set your NeuroStars account up.

Best regards, and happy coding!
Malin
-- 
Malin Sandström, PhD
Community Engagement Officer
malin.sandstrom at incf.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-8464-2494

International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77  Stockholm
Sweden
http://www.incf.org
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