Hi all, OSGeo was accepted to GSoC 2015. Below information about new rules for slots assignment.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> Date: 2015-03-03 14:42 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepted to GSoC 2015 - overview of slot assignments To: [email protected] Wonderful news Madi and Anne! Thank you both for pushing this. And I really like the plan to promote the integration between OSGeo projects. -jeff On 2015-03-03 5:41 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > > Dear All, > > it is our pleasure to announce that *OSGeo has been accepted as > mentoring organization* also this year! [1] > The OSGeo GSoC Team has been reshaped with respect to former > communications, and it's now composed by myself (Madi) in the role of > primary admin and the experienced Anne Ghisla in the role of co-admin. > > Now it's time for prospecting students to carefully browse the list of > ideas and contact developers team of their interest. Mentor registration > is not yet open and will be announced in due time. Students can > officially apply on Melange from 16th to 27th of March. > > All, do keep an eye (and a calendar client reminder) on all *GSoC 2015 > dates* [2]! > > This year, we will be using slightly different *procedure for assigning > slots* to selected projects. The experience from previous years made it > possible to define the criteria that will be applied this year, and > hopefully will be improved in the future: > > 1. Each project requires at least *two mentors*. The soundness of the > project, the selection of reliable mentors and student is responsibility > of its community. However, this year we strongly encourage the community > to assign to the wannabe-GSoC-student some small programming tasks or > bug fixes, in order to be sure that (s)he is familiar with the selected > software, the programming environment, version control system, mailing > list, etc and can code. Particular attention should be paid in the > selection of mentors that *won't disappear* in the course of the GSoC. > > 2. Each OSGeo software will have *one* slot assigned, provided that the > conditions at point 1 are met. > > 3. Like previous years, OSGeo will host some like-minded projects that > requested it, and will assign *1* slot to each guest, provided that the > conditions at point 1 are met. > > 4. This year we want to encourage projects that entail the*integration > between two or more OSGeo software*. For this reason, one extra slot > will be assigned to (sound) projects that aim at integrating two or more > software, provided that mentors of respective communities are involved. > > 5. If the number of slots will allow it, extra slots can be assigned to > projects that have gained a good *rate of success* in the course of past > years (reliable -not disappearing- mentors, student success, etc). > > Further discussion on specific slot assignments will take place among > mentors in due time. This is the admins outline of this year's criteria. > > Please send answers to this announcement*to soc [3] list*, and forward > this mail to all relevant mailing lists of your knowledge. > > */And now, let s do this thing!/* > */http://tinyurl.com/l32yzgp/* > > Yours enthusiastically, > > Madi and Anne > OSGeo GSoC Admins 2015 > > [1] > http://google-opensource.blogspot.it/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html > [2] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 > [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc -- Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
