as this is an announcement not a thread I don't have to apologize for cross posting ;) --
Hi, as you may or may not have heard, OSGeo and its projects (such as GRASS) have been accepted as a mentor organization for Google's Summer of Code. The program pays students a US$4500 (or so) stipend to help with open source coding projects. http://www.osgeo.org/node/616 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Ideas Here's a flyer about it to post in the hallways of your local campus or to distribute to your students: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/ (can someone with access update that with the new dates?) So far we have gotten lots of interesting applications - the original deadline was today but they've just extended it by a week. The new closing date for new student applications is Monday April 7. see http://code.google.com/soc/2008 spread the word, we've got a week. Also, if you're a project developer and would like to help as a mentor, please contact Wolf & co. on the soc(at)lists.osgeo.org mailing list. A successful application requires a student matched with a mentor, so it's no good if we get 50 good applications but only have a handful of mentors, and so have to forfeit good students and funding. cheers, Hamish (mentor, 2nd class) ps- I wonder if there is still room to extend the ideas section, e.g. I would dearly love to see the OpenEV contrib/ ENC S-52 library for rendering navigation charts better integrated into OpenEV or added to QGIS. I am not sure what sub-umbrella that would fall under, or who would want to take the lead in mentoring that, QGIS or GDAL, or ..? I have the S-52 lib's demo GTK app running and it looks great. But I digress... (crap, now it's a thread and I have to apologise for cross-posting; sorry) _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
