Google Summer of Code 2011: stipends awarded

Yury Zaytsev, PhD student at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany, will work on a build platform and continuous integration infrastructure to improve the accessibility and quality of neuroinformatics code. Quoting Yury:

"I would like to create a CI infrastructure and set it up to provide complete build services for one particular neuroinformatics project (NEST). Implementation would be such that further projects can be added by writing appropriate glue code, maintenance of the build slaves is automated, self-documenting and reproducible. A research question would be whether a compile farm can be provided using the same configuration of slaves (1) and if NEST can be built in parallel (2)."

Yury will be mentored by Abigail Morrison and Jochen Eppler from the NEST Initiative and Raphael Ritz from the INCF Secretariat. The full project description is available at the GSoC site.

Dipanjan Mukherjee, undergraduate student of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, will work on a Web Data Analysis Tool specifically tailored to handle multi-channel time series data. Quoting Dipanjan: "An application that allows scientists to cleanly represent views of their data in a pure python class and a javascript library to display and alter plots of this data with support for zoom/pan, multiple time-series plotting and ajax loading of new data."

Dipanjan will be mentored by Andrey Sobolev from the German INCF Node and the INCF Data sharing Task Force (electrophysiology). The full proposal is available from the GSoC site.

Congratulations to Yury and Dipanjan!