<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Margherita Di Leo</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:41 AM<br>Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepted to GSoC 2015 - overview of slot assignments<br>To: OSGeo Discussions <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, OSGeo-SoC <<a href="mailto:soc@lists.osgeo.org">soc@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>it is our pleasure to announce that <b>OSGeo has been accepted as mentoring organization</b> also this year! [1]</div><div>The OSGeo GSoC Team has been reshaped with respect to former communications, and it's now composed by myself (Madi) in the role of primary admin and the experienced Anne Ghisla in the role of co-admin.</div><div><br></div><div>Now it's time for prospecting students to carefully browse the list of ideas and contact developers team of their interest. Mentor registration is not yet open and will be announced in due time. Students can officially apply on Melange from 16th to 27th of March.</div><div><br></div><div>All, do keep an eye (and a calendar client reminder) on all <b>GSoC 2015 dates</b> [2]!</div><div><br></div><div>This year, we will be using slightly different <b>procedure for assigning slots</b> to selected projects. The experience from previous years made it possible to define the criteria that will be applied this year, and hopefully will be improved in the future:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Each project requires at least <b>two mentors</b>. The soundness of the project, the selection of reliable mentors and student is responsibility of its community. However, this year we strongly encourage the community to assign to the wannabe-GSoC-student some small programming tasks or bug fixes, in order to be sure that (s)he is familiar with the selected software, the programming environment, version control system, mailing list, etc and can code. Particular attention should be paid in the selection of mentors that <b>won't disappear</b> in the course of the GSoC.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Each OSGeo software will have <b>one</b> slot assigned, provided that the conditions at point 1 are met.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Like previous years, OSGeo will host some like-minded projects that requested it, and will assign <b>1</b> slot to each guest, provided that the conditions at point 1 are met.</div><div><br></div><div>4. This year we want to encourage projects that entail the<b> integration between two or more OSGeo software</b>. For this reason, one extra slot will be assigned to (sound) projects that aim at integrating two or more software, provided that mentors of respective communities are involved.</div><div><br></div><div>5. If the number of slots will allow it, extra slots can be assigned to projects that have gained a good <b>rate of success</b> in the course of past years (reliable -not disappearing- mentors, student success, etc).</div><div><br></div><div>Further discussion on specific slot assignments will take place among mentors in due time. This is the admins outline of this year's criteria.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send answers to this announcement<b> to soc [3] list</b>, and forward this mail to all relevant mailing lists of your knowledge.</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>And now, let s do this thing!</i></b></div><div><b><i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/l32yzgp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/l32yzgp</a></i></b></div><div><br></div><div>Yours enthusiastically,</div><div><br></div><div>Madi and Anne</div><div>OSGeo GSoC Admins 2015</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.it/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html" target="_blank">http://google-opensource.blogspot.it/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015" target="_blank">https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Best regards,</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Dr. Margherita DI LEO </font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Scientific / technical project officer</span><br></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">European Commission - DG JRC </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Via Fermi, 2749</font></div><div><font color="#666666">I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261</font></div><div><font color="#666666"> </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 </font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.</font></div></div></div>
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