Orange Blog

By: BIOLAB, Apr 8, 2011

Student application period for GSoC 2011 has ended

Student application period for Google Summer of Code 2011 has ended. We got 47 proposals from students all around the world. Now it is time for us to evaluate them and select the best proposals and the best students to work this year on Orange.

Categories: gsoc

By: BIOLAB, Mar 29, 2011

Our GSoC 2011 posters

We have made our own recruitment posters for this year’s Google Summer of Code inviting students to participate.

Categories: gsoc

By: MARKO, Mar 28, 2011

Data loading speedups

Orange has been loading data faster since the end of February, especially if there are many attributes in the file. Quick comparisons between the old new versions, measured on my computer: adult.tab (32561 examples, 15 attributes): old version = 1.41s, new version = 0.86s. DLBCL.tab (77 examples, 7071 attributes): old version = 2.72s, new version = 0.93s. GDS1962.tab (104 examples, 31837 attributes): old version = 33.5s, new version = 6.6s. The speedups were obtained with:


By: BIOLAB, Mar 18, 2011

Orange has been accepted into GSoC 2011

This year Orange has been accepted into the Google summer of Code program as a mentoring organization. It is one of 175 open-source organizations/projects/groups which will this year mentor students while they will be working on those accepted open source projects. We have prepared a page on our Trac with more information about the Google Summer of Code program, especially how the interested students should apply with their proposals. There is also a list of of some ideas we are proposing for this year.

Categories: gsoc

By: BIOLAB, Feb 11, 2011

Biolab retreat Februar 2011

From Wednesday, 2nd February 2011, to Saturday, 5th February 2011, we have been on working retreat at Lake Bohinj. The whole Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Faculty of Computer and Information technology has temporary moved to a nice house just few meters from the lake, enjoing the nature and without any distractions. Plan: working on the next version of Orange, Orange 2.5 and documentation rewrite. Orange 2.5 will have a better and restructured Python scripting interface along with great and shinny documentation.

Categories: bohinj orange25 retreat

By: BIOLAB, Mar 4, 2010

Debian repository lives!

We have made still-experimental-but-probably-working Debian repository with daily built Orange packages. Currently without add-ons. To get access to those packages just add those two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list (this file contains a list of repositories with packages): deb http://orange.biolab.si/debian lenny main deb-src http://orange.biolab.si/debian lenny main And then you can install Orange with this command: aptitude update aptitude install orange-svn Packages are not signed as they are made automatically so you will probably be warned about this.