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

[Steve Lime]

I'd be willing to co-mentor that one too.

>>> On 2/21/2008 at 10:16 AM, in message <47BDA3E4.9050105 at swoodbridge.com>,
Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> 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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