[Soc-coordination] HPC + D-I projects - status update

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

we have two applicants for the HPC project so far, i.e. William Garcia
and Dominique Belhachemi. My heart beats for Dominique since he is very
proactive and needs the HPC functionality for his thesis work, but,
well, we'll see.

For the HPC I got Sven Trautmann from Sun as a co-mentor. He is
preparing the HPC RPMs (er, I should have said "stack"). I met him on
last year's supercomputing conference in Hamburg. You would like him.

For the Open Moko d-i we have Thibaut Girka on the hook who is making an
excellent impression on me. He already communicated with a series of
individuals on the list and brings folks together. Very, very, nice.

Sadly, I don't have anyone for my interaction of apps for bioinformatics
on the desktop, which is with nescent, not with Debian.

I would not like to have the students compete too much in their
applications, I must admit. This pending time now is just rendering them
unproductive IMHO. But, I know, I don't make the rules.

Cheers,

Steffen