NRNB welcomes mentors for GSoC 2023

[Kristina Hanspers]

The National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) will be applying as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2023 for the joint efforts of Cytoscape and other network biology tools.

If you have a Cytoscape related project idea you would like to mentor, keep reading!

For GSoC 2023, Google will be keeping the changes that were introduced last year that some of you are already familiar with:

- Projects can be defined as either ~175 hours (medium) and 350 hours (large).  
- Flexible project timeline: the standard coding period is 12 weeks, but the length of time allowed to complete a project can range from 10 weeks to 22 weeks. 
- The program will be open to students and beginners to open source development, 18 years and older. 

- A person can be accepted as a GSoC Contributor up to 2 times, regardless of when their first GSoC acceptance was, assuming they can still be considered a beginner.

Read the full announcement from Google here: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/11/get-ready-for-google-summer-of-code-2023.html

If you are interested in mentoring, complete these tasks before January 16, 2023:

1. Add your new project ideas at GitHub: https://github.com/nrnb/GoogleSummerOfCode/issues. We have closed all open issues, you can reopen previous project ideas and make any necessary updates.  

2. Complete the mentor survey, even if you completed one last year: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nrnb-gsoc-mentors

Resources:
Mentor guide:  https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/
Program timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

Feel free to forward this to colleagues working on open source network biology projects. And let us know if you have any questions!

Thanks!

Kristina Hanspers

NRNB Outreach Coordinator

NRNB.org