[Openchemistry-developers] GSoC 2018

[Karol Langner]

Hi Alok,

No specific issue comes to mind at the moment, you can peruse the various
bugs we have filed at https://github.com/cclib/cclib/issues

An idea for pre-project work: you could try to write a simplistic parser
and try to get it to crawl the github repository and find out test files.

As far as the application is concerned, I would suggest putting a lot of
focus on what the project would achieve. For example, can you estimate the
number of logfiles out there you expect to find with the crawler?


On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Alok Kumar <alokkr.iitb at gmail.com> wrote:

> #cclib  #parser-crawler
>
> Hello. Had been busy with my mid-semester exams .
> Looked into various parser codes.
> I wanted to ask what should I start working upon - any specific issue in
> parser or building a crawler...
>
> Regards,
> Alok
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Karol Langner <karol.langner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Done.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:01 AM, ALOK KUMAR <alokkr.iitb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to join the slack channel to follow the discussion .Can you
>>> please send Open Chemistry slack invite to my email
>>> alokkr.iitb at gmail.com
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alok
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Karol Langner <karol.langner at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>
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