Just a little bump to us that applications are open for organisations to apply, and we have 3 days left.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html Tim On 28 February 2010 19:05, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi There, > It will soon be time for OpenStreetMap to apply to join the 2010 Google > Summer of Code Programme. This gives students the opportunity to work on > open source projects during the summer, for which they receive some payment > by Google. It costs us nothing more than providing a Mentor to guide the > student. > > It would be really useful if we could put together a list of potential > student projects to get potential applicants thinking. The projects need > to be fairly well defined to make it easy to judge 'success', so it is good > to have specific targets. > > From recent discussions on these lists I have identified the following > possibilities so far: > > Develop a stand alone 'Newbie'/'Introductory'/'Lite' Editor - the priority > is ease of use rather than functionality. > Help with the development of Potlatch 2 (maybe to include the 'lite' editor > functionality) - we would need to help the applicants identify specific > targets. > Develop a simple 'mapping tool' for mobile phones to easily collect GPX > traces, geotagged images and geotagged audio clips. Ideally it should be > capable of running on both Android, J2ME and Iphones, so you can have the > same simple application no matter what sort of phone you use. > Improve the usability of a simple mobile phone map editing application (such > as vespucci for android). > Incorporation of OSM data and traffic data. > > I am sure there are other things that I am not familiar with too - would it > be useful for someone to do some work on tools to process OSM data in some > way, or are there any tasks on the OSM server itself that could be turned > into projects? > > Please will you give some thought to other possibilities and either add them > to the GSoC 2010 Wiki Page > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010) or reply by > email if you prefer. > > Thanks > > Graham. > > > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK > email: grahamjones...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
