Portland State University has been an "umbrella" sponsoring organization
every year. In 2005 8 projects were sponsored, in 2006 only 3 (out of
20 student submissions, most of them being quite strong). This was
largely in part to the increase in mentoring organizations, apparently
there were ~2.5 times as many in 2006 as 2005. My two cents are to make
sure that projects submitted can be realistically completed in the time
given and that all necessary resources are available to complete the
project.
-Tim
Paul Ramsey wrote:
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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?
You will need a sponsoring organization regardless, and if your
organization is not accepted, the whole procedure becomes moot. Most
"unknown" sponsors got the minimum three students last time. OSGeo, as
an umbrella, nonprofit, multi-project, organization would probably get
quite a few more. My feeling is that on balance the community would be
better served using OSGeo as an umbrella rather than trying to go
individually. What is important is that a large number of top quality
students do work in the community.
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