I'm interested to hear ideas for a Mapbuilder Summer Of Code project. Wolf Bergenheim wrote: > Hello fellow OSGeoers! > > Google is about to announce summer of code 2008, and this year I'd > like to be a bit more prepared. > > So for this reason I have updated our old SoC Wiki page [1] with > information for this year. > > Each project should now start to think of ideas and also who their > mentors should be. > > We should also decide on a uniform way to review the student > applications. Do we need/want to have an entry exam? A few questions > about gis and some simple generic programming task? Do you have other > ideas? > > As for the ideas themselves it seems that the trend is to have not > very detailed but not too generic ideas either. These semi-generic > ideas should get the creative juices of the students to flow, which > should help us in finding the best and the brightest. I think this is > good advice, it will allow us to judge the applications also on the > base of what the students come up with. > > Also we should create a wiki page for each application we find even a > bit interesting to flesh it out during the review period. > > In the Google SoC wiki page [2] they have some very good advice. If > you want to be a mentor, be sure to read them, then talk among your > selves and decide on who the mentor(s) should be. Google recommends 2 > mentors per student (plus 1 generic backup mentor), but that depends a > bit on the mentors (and students), and if you are going to have a > summer vacation. > > So project mentors or people interested in SoC, please read [1] and > [2] and maybe start working on the idea page of your project. > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code > [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors > > Looking forward to another Summer of Code, > --Wolf >
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