<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b68cdb0c-83da-8ed7-1739-c32919650832"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear OSGeo community,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are proud to announce that OSGeo has been selected as a mentor organization for the 2017 edition of GSoC! See all selected orgs here [1].</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> From now *</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">until March 20</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">potential student participants are invited to discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations/OSGeo’s projects (see the detailed timeline [2]). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mentors are invited to let us know the project they intend to mentor, and to register on the Google webpage [3]. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Before committing for mentorship, please read and accept the mentor’s responsibilities</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> * [4]. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Once we have verified the correspondence between the mentors and the idea, we will proceed to appointing them in our wiki page at [5] and connect the mentors to the OSGeo organization on the Google website, from which it’ll be possible for the mentors to evaluate the proposals. Mentors: please offer guidance to the students that contact your software communities, and offer them a code challenge in line with the project that they want to apply for. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Would-be students: please read carefully the recommendations at: [6] and browse the ideas page at [7]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*All: please subscribe the soc mailing list</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> *[8].</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Let’s begin!!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The OSGeo GSoC Team</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3] </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[4] </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#A_Mentor.27s_Responsibilities" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#A_Mentor.27s_Responsibilities</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[5] </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[6] </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[7] </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[8] </span><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/soc" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/soc</span></a></p><br></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Margherita Di Leo</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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