How about getting a graduate to get the OSGeo stack packaged up.
I'd be prepared to mentor that.
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Paul Ramsey wrote:
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,
Howard Butler is already doing some legwork to identify projects, and
students around GDAL but it hadn't occured to me to utilize OSGeo as the
mentoring organization. If the different projects come up with a number
of projects a students is it likely to be disadvantagous to have them all
come from one organizations (OSGeo) as opposed to spread out as several
different organizations submitting requests?
Best regards,
--
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5011
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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