[BiO BB] NRNB Academy announcement

Gary Bader gary.bader at utoronto.ca
Sat Jan 7 20:16:53 EST 2012


We are pleased to announce the official launch of NRNB Academy, an
opportunity for anyone interested in open source development to work with
the NRNB development team on network biology related tools and resources.
The main goals of the NRNB Academy are to:
* Provide participants with practical open source dev experience
* Provide hobbyists and professionals with introductory projects
* Promote development of scientific tools for network biology
* Produce useful tools and resources for the research community

How does it work?
The NRNB Academy organizes and matches projects and participants, providing
structure, guidelines and outreach. If you are familiar with the Google
Summer of Code program, then you have the basic idea. The main difference is
that NRNB Academy is a year-round program, accommodating students and
non-students with flexible project dates ranging from 2 to 12 months. All
projects are 100% unfunded, volunteer experiences.

What is NRNB?
The National Resource for Network Biology (nrnb.org) develops a freely
available, open source suite of software technologies to enable
network-based visualization, analysis, and biomedical discovery. NRNB is an
NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Biomedical Technology
Research Center (BTRC). If you tend to forget initials, just call it Narnby,
as in, “I just joined Narnby Academy!”

To learn more and for details on how to participate, visit
http://nrnb.org/academy.html.





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