Good to see OSGeo getting so many students. With the increase to 20 students, my project from last year looks like it will have a student working on it this year-- that is fun to see.<br><br>Thanks for all of your help with OSGeo's SoC program.<br>
<br>-- Chris Whitney <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Hamish <<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Hats off again to Wolf, glad we are so well maintained. The extra slots<br>
are a real coup. (How many OSGeo t-shirts did that cost us? ;)<br>
<br>
In case anyone forgot to do the math, (if all goes well) that's US$100,000<br>
funding from Google for OSGeo projects this year! Holy cow. ($10k to the<br>
foundation, $90k to students) Yesterday it was at $45k.<br>
<br>
<br>
I think it would be a nice idea for all OSGeo mentors to quickly read<br>
through the top 20 :) rated applications and comment as needed. There is<br>
a heck of a lot of overlap between all our projects and even mentors<br>
might not be aware of a community resource that might be useful for<br>
cross-pollination. It is of course most useful to find out that you are<br>
about to reinvent the wheel when you are just starting out, and then can<br>
apply your efforts to improvements instead of basics. The stronger our<br>
projects begin the more successful they will be, and the more slots we<br>
get next year. I found it to be an interesting exercise & read, anyway.<br>
It's good to know what others are doing.<br>
<br>
<br>
good on ya Wolf,<br>
Hamish<br>
<br>
ps - I am curious to know the total number of OSGeo mentors we ended up<br>
with? (vs number of eligible students). Anyone mentoring for more than one<br>
OSGeo project? Similarly it might be nice to put on the wiki page who are<br>
the mentor contacts for each OSGeo project, and the project's license.<br>
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