Just to re-iterate, OSGeo would be an obvious and easy candidate to be a
"mentoring organization" which could serve as an umbrella for SoC
submissions on all sorts of open source spatial projects. I would
volunteer to be the administrator (I did it last year when Refractions
was a mentoring organization) but this year I have FOSS4G as a
responsibility, so I cannot make more time.
OSGeo would have to provide
- 1 Administrator to handle all the organizational aspects and be a
point of contact to the Google SoC administration
- N Mentors, one for each student project
-- Mentors must review the students work, provide them support and
"getting started" help, and write up two short evaluations (mid- and final).
Presumably the mentors would arise naturally from projects proposing
work items they want done and thereby also volunteering to oversee those
items.
In return, OSGeo gets N students, working on their projects for four
months, and $500 cash money per mentor, which can either be given to the
mentor, or kept, depending on what policy osgeo wants to adopt.
Paul
Paul Ramsey wrote:
This program funded three students last year who worked on Geotools
projects.
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html
It does require some volunteer time to administer, however.
--
Paul Ramsey
Refractions Research
http://www.refractions.net
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Phone: 250-383-3022
Cell: 250-885-0632
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