Google Summer of Code Ideas

[Steve Lime]

Hi Folks: If you haven't been watching the OSGeo discuss lists you may not have seen discussions related to OSGeo serving as an umbrella organization for Google Summer of Code Submissions. OSGeo has put out a last call for project ideas and mentors. The main OSGeo page for this topic is:

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code 

You can see what sort of things other OSGeo releated projects are thinking about. I started (albeit blank at the moment) an idea page for MapServer at:

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MapServer_2007_SOC_Ideas

I would encourage anyone with ideas that aren't scheduled for development already (there must be loads of them) to jot them down on that page. The guts of Frank's latest message to the OSGeo lists is included below.

Steve

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This is sort of a last call to projects interested in participating in
the Google Summer of Code under the OSGeo umbrella.  I will need a pointer to
a page with project ideas and a list of willing mentors - with google
account names for them - at:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code 

I'd encourage some selectivity in picking mentors.  These folks will be
stuck coddling students and will be expected to be supportive, helpful
and knowledgable.  Also, I'd encourage trimming the ideas list to a moderate
length with reasonably well explained ideas.  Random students with no
background in our industry will be reading them and potentially trying to
prepare proposals based on them.