<div dir="ltr">Hello Asif!<div><br></div><div>The PGD has some nifty science going on but at its core it is essentially a classic Django database app. We curate proteins from the world-wide protein data bank based on files generated by a protein sequence culling server and store those proteins in a searchable form. Scientists can then query this database to study conformation, bond lengths and angles, and other cool things.</div><div><br></div><div>What this means to you is that you probably have the skills and experience necessary to contribute to the PGD on the Django side of things, and there's plenty of room to grow on the science side. A potential gateway project could be the retooling of the (admittedly minimal) user account system currently in place. Most of the work involved in getting users working properly is traditional Django stuff, but adding the ability to reliably save searches would start you down the science path. Questions like "How do searches work?" turn into "What exactly are the scientists searching for?" and "How do all the parts work together?" pretty quickly, and for me it was quite fun and exciting to delve into the source code and learn the answers.</div><div><br></div><div>Please take a look at the issues and let me know if you have any questions!</div><div><br></div><div>Jack.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Kennric <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kennric@osuosl.org" target="_blank">kennric@osuosl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello, and thanks for writing.<br>
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I'll have our mentor for the PGD project reply to this as soon as he
in in the office, but meanwhile you can take a look at our issue
tracker: <a href="https://code.osuosl.org/projects/pgd/issues" target="_blank">https://code.osuosl.org/projects/pgd/issues</a> for some idea
of the kinds of work we need to do with PGD. <br>
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The project is now on github at: <a href="https://github.com/osuosl/pgd/" target="_blank">https://github.com/osuosl/pgd/</a><br>
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The documentation is in the develop branch of the repo, under docs/
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<a href="https://github.com/osuosl/pgd/tree/develop/docs/source" target="_blank">https://github.com/osuosl/pgd/tree/develop/docs/source</a><br>
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<div>Our PGD developer, Jack, will be able
to give you a much more comprehensive answer about what we would
like to see in a proposal.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Ken<div><div><br>
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On 03/05/2015 08:13 AM, Asif Saifuddin wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Developer Members of OSUOSL,
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<div>I'm Asif Saifuddin Auvi, A Post graduate student of IIT,
Jahangirnagar University. I completed my bachelors at
geography.</div>
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<div>I have some work experience with python + django web
framework + postgresql + postGIS + writing RESTful API's for
web front end and mobile apps + Some HTML CSS and Javascript
skills too. I use ubuntu linux regular basis and can
deploy/setup django apps/project on live server with nginx +
gunicorn + postgres.</div>
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<div>I also have interest in scientific programming with python
which I am not so good right now.</div>
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<div>I found </div>
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<h4>Project:
What’s Fresh version 2.0</h4>
<div>and</div>
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<h4>Protein
Geometry Database (PGD)</h4>
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<div>Interesting.</div>
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<div>I would be able to submit a draft proposal about the Fresh
water project in the mailing list but will need help regarding
Protein geometry DB.</div>
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<div>Would love to hear from you guys If I am allowed to discuss
further about the project Ideas?</div>
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<div>my github repo: <a href="https://github.com/auvipy" target="_blank">https://github.com/auvipy</a></div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Asif Saifuddin </div>
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