how about extending the types of maps supported by tilecache? On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Erik Uzureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This in from the OS-Geo mailing list... > if anyone has some ideas of potential projects they could think of, > please let the list know. > > Erik > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Wolf Bergenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:53 AM > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008 > > > To: OSGeo Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OSGeo SoC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hello fellow OSGeoers! > > Google is about to announce summer of code 2008, and this year I'd like > to be a bit more prepared. > > So for this reason I have updated our old SoC Wiki page [1] with > information for this year. > > Each project should now start to think of ideas and also who their > mentors should be. > > We should also decide on a uniform way to review the student > applications. Do we need/want to have an entry exam? A few questions > about gis and some simple generic programming task? Do you have other ideas? > > As for the ideas themselves it seems that the trend is to have not very > detailed but not too generic ideas either. These semi-generic ideas > should get the creative juices of the students to flow, which should > help us in finding the best and the brightest. I think this is good > advice, it will allow us to judge the applications also on the base of > what the students come up with. > > Also we should create a wiki page for each application we find even a > bit interesting to flesh it out during the review period. > > In the Google SoC wiki page [2] they have some very good advice. If you > want to be a mentor, be sure to read them, then talk among your selves > and decide on who the mentor(s) should be. Google recommends 2 mentors > per student (plus 1 generic backup mentor), but that depends a bit on > the mentors (and students), and if you are going to have a summer vacation. > > So project mentors or people interested in SoC, please read [1] and [2] > and maybe start working on the idea page of your project. > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code > [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors > > Looking forward to another Summer of Code, > --Wolf > > -- > > <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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