[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Geotools-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Jody Garnett]

Good timing - we were talking about this very topic in todays GeoTools
meeting. And arriving at a similar spot - that OSGeo would be the best
organization for the task.

What we initial need however is someone on the "admin" side to get the
OSGeo effort underway; perhaps provide a template for "ideas" and help
play match maker when the students come to call.

Is this person you?

Jody
PS. Ideas for any of these email lists are not a problem; from last
years experience I would recommend spending effort on making sure the
ideas are communicated well.
PS. CCing a bunch of lists does not work (everyone get's bounce messages
as they hit "reply-to-all", and you need to tag in the OSGeo discussion
list.

> As part of my efforts to be more active on the "open source geospatial 
> community" I have agreed to help Frank Wammerdam with the Google 
> Summer of Code coordination at the OSGeo. (Thanks to Paul Ramsey for 
> some encouragement in this regard.)
>  
> I'd really like to see some GeoTools and JUMP/OpenJUMP projects make 
> it in to the Summer of Code umbrella at the OSGeo. I am willing to 
> prepare a Summer of Code proposal for a DXF reader/writer that we can 
> contribute to GeoTools and use in JUMP/OpenJUMP and UDig. I am also 
> willing to prepare a proposal to add some improvements and new 
> features to JTS. I would also mentor both projects.
>  
> However, I don't know any students enrolled in programming courses 
> that would be interested in this. I know some of my fellow 
> JUMP/OpenJUMP developers and the GeoTools developers would be in a 
> better position in this regard. If I prepare one or two of the 
> proposals I mentioned will we be able to find interested students to 
> participate?
>  
> Thanks for your help with this.
>  
> The Sunburned Surveyor
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