[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [SoC] Google Summer of Code 2010 begins

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Thanks for putting together the OSGeo SoC program once again Wolf!

Landon

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Wolf Bergenheim
<wolf+grass at bergenheim.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first of all we at OSGeo would like to to thank all students who
> applied this year! THANK YOU :D
>
> Then congratulations are in order for the 10 students selected to
> participate in the program. Well done and welcome to the community!
> We'd wanted to take more students but unfortunately that isn't
> possible. For those of you who didn't get a selected we'd like to
> invite you to participate in the summer anyway. If you let us know
> that you intend to work on your project we're more than pleased to
> help you out! Even if you won't get the Google stipend you will get
> lots of experience and some very good contacts for the future. I, and
> (I'm sure other mentors as well) would be happy to write letters of
> recommendation to any student who complete their work, with or without
> a Google sponsored contract.
> If you do it without a slot you will have more freedom, but a plan is
> still a very good idea since it will help you finish.
>
> If you are curious to see what projects OSGeo is doing this year, go
> over to our home page in Melange[1] and have a look. The project plans
> will be detailed and wiki pages will be set up for the students within
> the near future, but the accepted project abstracts should be publicly
> visible.
>
> Thank you again, all students who applied and thank you to mentors for
> evaluating over 50 good proposals and selecting the top 10 slots.
>
> I will be sending further instructions to students and mentors later
> this week, for now, relax, and get to know your Student/Mentor(s).
>
> The summer is on!
> Wolf Bergenheim,
> OSGeo GSoC 2010 Administrator
>
> [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/osgeo
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