Hi, I just happen to have noticed an email from Hamish Bowman, who will likely be the primary GSoc administrator for OSGeo for this year.
""" I need to send a separate email to osgeo-discuss about this, but the main thing we need from our osgeo teams *this week* is for the member projects to coordinate on their respective dev mailing lists and get their 2015 ideas pages into shape. That is the primary thing Google will judge OSGeo's application on and despite past success there is no guarantee whatsoever that we'll be asked back. If the ideas pages are weak and simply recycled links to last year's we could be left out in the cold. They want to see that we have active and interested mentors and a well developed ideas page is the way to show that. Follow the guide in the mentors' manual* on how to write up a good ideas page. We'll link to the various ideas pages from the main osgeo wiki page as we have in years past. [*] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/ One thing to discuss about this year is tightening up the application process to weed out problematic students early on in the process. This may mean we take less students this year and strongly focus on quality not quantity. The typical GSoC way of doing that up-front is to require the students to send a patch to the project's bug tracker for some bug/feature of their choosing as a component of their application. This proves they can code(!), forces them to register with trac or redmine, download, build, and understand the code tree, learn how to use svn/git and diff+patch tools, and gets them involved with the community early on. Another way would be to place a limit on how many total osgeo newbies we take on. Please do share your thoughts in a new thread. """ So if you've ideas and are willing to mentor/co-mentor, please edit http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
