Landon Blake wrote:
As part of my efforts to be more active on the "open source
geospatial community" I have agreed to help Frank Wammerdam with the
Google Summer of Code coordination at the OSGeo. (Thanks to Paul
Ramsey for some encouragement in this regard.)
I'd really like to see some GeoTools and JUMP/OpenJUMP projects make
it in to the Summer of Code umbrella at the OSGeo. I am willing to
prepare a Summer of Code proposal for a DXF reader/writer that we can
contribute to GeoTools and use in JUMP/OpenJUMP and UDig. I am also
willing to prepare a proposal to add some improvements and new
features to JTS. I would also mentor both projects.
However, I don't know any students enrolled in programming courses
that would be interested in this. I know some of my fellow
JUMP/OpenJUMP developers and the GeoTools developers would be in a
better position in this regard. If I prepare one or two of the
proposals I mentioned will we be able to find interested students to
participate?
At the moment we all need to figure out who will be under which umbrella
-- I would like to see OSGeo open a large umbrella and take in any open
source geospatial projects, rather than just those which are bona fide
OSGeo members.
Finding students won't be a problem.
The deadline for mentoring organization applications is in 2 weeks,
looking like this:
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727
So a list needs to be put together of which groups (GeoTools, JUMP,
Mapserver, GRASS, etc) are under OSGeo, who the potential mentors are
for each, and a whole whack of project ideas. Based on discussion at
the GSoc mentor summit last year, Google would not take kindly to groups
trying to apply under more than one umbrella organization.
Cheers,
Cory.
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