[Geo4All] Fw:OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for sharing this news.  By the way several of us are helping 
administer this year, so any questions should be sent direct to: 
gsoc-admin at osgeo.org

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
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On 2017-02-28 5:52 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> This might be of interest to the GeoForAll community. For any queries
> please contact Margherita Di Leo directly or email the soc mailing list
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Margherita
> Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> Sent: 28 February 2017 8:33 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for
> GSoC    2017!
>
> Dear OSGeo community,
>
>
> 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].
>
>
>>From now *until March 20*, potential student participants are invited
> to discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations/OSGeo’s
> projects (see the detailed timeline [2]).
>
>
> Mentors are invited to let us know the project they intend to mentor,
> and to register on the Google webpage [3]. *Before committing for
> mentorship, please read and accept the mentor’s responsibilities * [4].
>
>
> 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.
>
> Would-be students: please read carefully the recommendations at: [6] and
> browse the ideas page at [7]
>
> *All: please subscribe the soc mailing list *[8].
>
>
> Let’s begin!!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> The OSGeo GSoC Team
>
>
>
> [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
>
> [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>
> [3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
>
> [4]
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#A_Mentor.27s_Responsibilities
>
> [5]
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors
>
> [6]
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students
>
> [7] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas
>
> [8] http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/soc
>
>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
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