>>>>> "sw" == Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> writes:
sw> What very few of them had, to the best of my recollection, was a long
sw> standing history of being part of the existing OpenStreetMap community.
sw> Some didn't have an account, others signed up the day they applied.
sw>
sw> When those applicants were accepted, the results have always been
sw> disappointing. Some only did half the project, some a quarter, some wrote
sw> documentation for systems that they never developed, and others never did
sw> anything at all. It appears that the only thing these students were
looking
sw> for was some money, and they were using the Google Summer of Code program,
sw> and the OpenStreetMap project to get it.
Hi Serge,
You are being unfair with at least some of the students who have
worked on GSoC with Openstreetmap in the past. Some of them have
executed their planned work fully but have not seen their contribution
taken up beyond the project, probably due to a lack of
commitment/followup from their mentors and from Openstreetmap
developers in general. (I say this as someone who has mentored in the
past, and been insufficiently active to get the produced code, which
does map matching and travel time analysis on OSM data, into wide use.)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/Travel_Time_Analysis
This being said, I do agree with your argument that we should
encourage (or even limit ourselves to) projects from students who have
already undertaken development on areas related to OSM, or projects
proposed by current OSM developers who can ensure takeup.
--
Eric Marsden
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