[SoC] Re: OSGeo Google Summer of Code

[Chris Holmes]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Adjusted the page a bit ... you seem to have misplaced GeoServer :-)
>>
>> JTileCache was actually for GeoServer, the caching data in uDig seems 
>> mostly to be GeoTools work etc ... reworked it into a table.
> 
> Jody,
> 
> Chris mentioned this and I asked him to fix it in the wiki.  If he didn't
> and you did, then thanks.
Exactly right.  I apologize, have been under a pile of work, it was on 
my todo list.  Thanks Jody.

> 
>>> Cory Horner wrote:
>>>> Last year it was based on score, so we ended up with our top 3 which 
>>>> was not what we wanted.  For our safety we should probably fix the 
>>>> scores to what we collectively want.
>>> ...
>> I am also not sure we could adjust are score once given.
> 
> I have just confirmed that we can just add additional scores to adjust
> things up or down as needed.
> 
>> Keep the table I just made in mind, some proposal benifit several 
>> projects (like say the PostGIS or GeoTools proposals - do we wish to 
>> take that into account?)
> 
> On actually reviewing the table, I think it substantially complicates
> something that was structurally simple, even if we were missing some
> subtle aspects of relationships.
> 
> I'm happy for uDig, GeoServer and GeoTools to come up with their rankings
> by any means that has the support of the 3 PSCs.  There will be
> essentially six "vertical slices" in the rankings for the six projects
> (grass, gdal, postgis, udig, geoserver and geotools).  We have yet to
> establish the final ranking of those vertical slices.  I was prioritizing
> them on the basis of candidate applications.  Reviewing the current lists
> (with some ambiguity with regard to java projects) I'd assume the priority
> to be:
> 
> Slice 1: GRASS (5 projects)
> Slice 2: GDAL (5 projects)
> Slice 3: GeoTools (4 projects)
> Slice 4: uDig (2 projects)
> Slice 5: PostGIS (2 projects)
> Slice 6: GeoServer (1 project)
> 
> If we were to get 12 projects this would mean top 3 for grass, top 2 for
> gdal,geotools, udig, and postgis, and geoserver getting it's one project.

There's one more for GeoServer.  I added it to the rankings page. 
Andrea Aime is willing to be mentor for it

One thing I still don't understand on the application list page is the 
purple ones vs. the light blue ones.  Is it the ones that have mentors 
who have volunteered?

Chris

> 
>> We will bring it up next meeting - I think the final deadline is April 
>> 6th?
> 
> My understanding is that Google announces final decisions on the 11th.
> I was hoping to have all rankings back by the 9th so I could get the
> list reordered shortly by no later than the morning of the 10th.
> 
> If you know of a deadline on the 6th please point it out to me!  Some
> aspects of the google process are mysterious to me, and I am living in
> constant fear of missing some deadline or other and our effort, and a
> number of student summers getting unnecessarily messed up because of it.
> 
> Incidentally, next year I'd be tempted to only allow OSGeo projects to
> be involved under OSGeo's banner.  It adds substantial extra complexity and
> risk (in my mind) for OSGeo to be covering for outside projects.  Of 
> course,
> uDig or GeoServer related work could likely be done under the GeoTools 
> banner
> if GeoTools was happy with that, and/or other organizations could apply for
> non-OSGeo projects.  But this is a discussion for another day.
> 
> Best regards,

-- 
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: cholmes.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 282 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/attachments/20070330/76fa3bf3/cholmes.vcf