[Openchemistry-developers] GSoC 2018

[Karol Langner]

Hi Alok,

Good to hear from you. I don't think a deep understanding of computational
chemistry or web crawling is a prerequisite, but of course it would be an
advantage. You need to be familiar enough with these subjects to be able to
propose a project plan that would deliver results during the summer. The
only way we can judge this is your proposal and any contributions you make
before the application period.

I would mention that this project is a little more research-y than most
others. You'll need to design a crawler/scraper that is appropriate for
this application, and figure what gaps need to be filled in in the existing
codebase.

Let us know if you have any other questions

- Karol


On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:09 PM, ALOK KUMAR <alokkr.iitb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>     I am Alok , a second year undergraduate at Indian Institute of
> Technology Bombay , India. I have interest in computational chemistry and
> had taken up a course this semester in my college.
>
> Among the GSoC-2018 ideas I found projects under cclib quite interesting,
> particularly  ##Discovering computational chemistry content online##
>
> I am familiar with web scraping using BeautifulSoup and urllib in Python
> and had recently started looking into Scrapy as well.
>
> I wanted to know how much understanding / familiarity is expected for
> contributing to this project . Also,(if required) is deeper understanding
> of computational chemistry or advanced web crawling a prerequisite or can
> it be worked upon during the initial Coding phase of GSoC.
>
> Looking ahead to staying in touch with the Open Chemistry community.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alok Kumar
> alokkr.iitb at gmail.com
>
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