[Soc-coordination] Possible GSoC idea: Cloud images for bioinformatics.

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:04:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 2012 has been a year of progresses in Debian's support for clouds,
> and Debian is planning to apply again to the Google Summer of Code.
> 
>     https://lists.debian.org/20130219002544.GA7036@leliel
> 
> I would like to propose a bottom-up project with the goal of setting an
> infrastructure or workflow allowing one to build and use easily a Debian (Med)
> image where given bioinformatics tools are available at a version selected by
> the user (tapping in snapshots.debian.org or perhaps other repository within
> our web of trust if necessary).
> ...

Sounds good.  I'm not that involved into clouds but remember that I
have read an article

   http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/cloud-init-utils-debian

which sounds very close to what you are proposing (at least with my
naive imagination about this topic.)
 
Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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