Hi all
Google SoC has been announced and OSGeo is joining. So I'd like to
invite everybody to think if we have cool projects and mentors to
join the SoC. It would be a good opportunity to do some of the stuff
we always wanted to finish (SLD editor for instance) and also to get
some limelight and in the process get new users and developers.
If we have time the next meeting I'd like to discuss this.
regards,
Steven
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From: Wolf Bergenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 20, 2008 2:53:36 PM GMT+01:00
To: OSGeo Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OSGeo SoC
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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