Not sure that I would want to volunteer to be the administrator (how
much work is it, btw?), but I think DMSG could mentor a student for
MapServer or related work ... don't have a particular project in mind
right now but there is always stuff to do on MapServer :)
Paul, what was the level of experience/capability of the students?
I'm asking so we can gauge the appropriate kind of project to give them.
Cheers
Paul
On 20-Feb-07, at 12:52 PM, 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
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.
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