[mapserver-dev] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I'm willing to be a mentor for the label collision test problem.

-Steve W

Steve Lime wrote:
> FYI folks. Would be nice to participate this year. If others agree we should start getting
> some ideas together. A couple of ideas off the top of my head:
> 
>   - KML driver for output, draw and query
>   - implementation of Steve Woodbridge's label collision test idea
> 
> Steve
> 
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> Subject:
> [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008
> From:
> Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:53:36 +0200
> To:
> OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo SoC <soc at lists.osgeo.org>
> 
> To:
> OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo SoC <soc at lists.osgeo.org>
> CC:
> 
> 
> Hello fellow OSGeoers!
> 
> Google is about to announce summer of code 2008, and this year I'd like 
> to be a bit more prepared.
> 
> So for this reason I have updated our old SoC Wiki page [1] with 
> information for this year.
> 
> Each project should now start to think of ideas and also who their 
> mentors should be.
> 
> We should also decide on a uniform way to review the student 
> applications. Do we need/want to have an entry exam? A few questions 
> about gis and some simple generic programming task? Do you have other 
> ideas?
> 
> As for the ideas themselves it seems that the trend is to have not very 
> detailed but not too generic ideas either. These semi-generic ideas 
> should get the creative juices of the students to flow, which should 
> help us in finding the best and the brightest. I think this is good 
> advice, it will allow us to judge the applications also on the base of 
> what the students come up with.
> 
> Also we should create a wiki page for each application we find even a 
> bit interesting to flesh it out during the review period.
> 
> In the Google SoC wiki page [2] they have some very good advice. If you 
> want to be a mentor, be sure to read them, then talk among your selves 
> and decide on who the mentor(s) should be. Google recommends 2 mentors 
> per student (plus 1 generic backup mentor), but that depends a bit on 
> the mentors (and students), and if you are going to have a summer vacation.
> 
> So project mentors or people interested in SoC, please read [1] and [2] 
> and maybe start working on the idea page of your project.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors
> 
> Looking forward to another Summer of Code,
> --Wolf
> 
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