Editing GSOC bid draft (section)

==2. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?==

As an academic group, we thrive on the participation of students. As scientists, learning is key to our mission, so we always welcome fellow participants. In particular, we could direct;y benefit from the presence of ambitious students who are adept with modern software methodologies. We expect the learning to be bidirectional.

This said, we also have very high ambitions for our project. We believe that the idea of scientific reproducibility is greatly facilitated by our architecture. Our implementation can be used directly by any data-intensive discipline. More importantly, it can be used as a prototype for other sciences that seek to have computational assistance in the pursuit of reproducibility. We have found that reproducibility as implemented by our group facilitates the intellectual growth of the work group and the advancement of the field as a whole.

The lead author of Madagascar was a co-editor of a recent edition of IEEE COmputing in Science and Engineering, in which these concepts were described at length. Our hope is to expose this approach to a wider community.